Rida Garari

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On September 19, 1995 an Iranian Boeing jet was hijacked by a flight attendant Rida Garari. It was Kish Air's flight 707 with 174 passengers on board. The hijacker demanded to land in Europe, but the plane did not have enough fuel. They eventually landed in Israel and in 1998 he was granted refuge status in Canada. Twenty years ago he was working for Iran's Gachsaran oil company.

In a recent turn of events, Iranian news website Farda News in January 2006 claimed he had been arrested while crossing the border between Iran and Turkey. They say he was working as a Mossad agent.