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Home » News » Iran Orders Flight Diversion To Offload Family Of Popular Dissident
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Iran Orders Flight Diversion To Offload Family Of Popular Dissident

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 27, 2022November 13, 2023 8 Comments

a white airplane on a runway at night

Iranian authorities ordered the diversion of a Mahan Air flight in order to offload the wife and daughter of Ali Daei, a football legend and political dissident in Iran.

Mahan Air A310 Diverts To Kish Island To Offload Family Of Footballer Ali Daei

Mahan Air Flight W563 took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport (IKA) on Monday, bound for Dubai (DXB). But rather than land in Dubai, the Airbus A310 aircraft diverted to Kish Island (KIH). On Kish Island, located just 123 miles from Dubai, to drop off two passengers.

Those passengers were Mona Farokhazari, wife of Iranian football legend Ali Daei, and their daughter.

According to a report from Iranian state media, Daei is quoted as saying:

“My daughter and wife were taken off the flight, but they were not arrested. Had they been banned [from leaving], the passport police system should have shown it: No one has given me an answer about this. I really don’t know what is the reason for these things. My wife and daughter were going to Dubai for a few days trip and back.”

It appears that a mistake was made in Tehran and the pair were allowed to board the flight without having the authority to do. The Islamic Republic routinely blocks citizens from leaving the country, including the family of political dissidents.

Ali Daei made waves by supporting protests over the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police for refusing to wear a head covering in public. Daei called on Iran to “solve the problems of the Iranian people rather than using repression, violence, and arrests.”

State media also reported, “Daei’s wife had pledged to inform the relevant institutions of her decision before leaving the country” due to their “association with the groups against the Islamic revolution and rioters and calling for strikes.”

The organization Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) reports that inside Iran, over 500 protesters have been killed and more than 18,500 people have been arrested since late September.

I was also questioned on Kish Island…I wonder if Farokhazari faced interrogation in the same room I did?


> Read More: Dubai to Kish Island, Iran on Kish Air + Interrogation at Iranian Border


CONCLUSION

A Mahan Air A310 enroute to Dubai diverted to Kish Island in order to drop off the wife and daughter of a football legend turned political dissident (for the audacity of urging the government not to be violent against protestors). The pair do not appear to be under arrest, but are being sent back to Tehran with the warning that they cannot leave the Islamic Republic.


image: Anna Zvereva / Wikimedia Commons

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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8 Comments

  1. Christian Reply
    December 27, 2022 at 3:24 pm

    You gotta love a theocracy. Sigh.

    • John Dogas Reply
      December 27, 2022 at 9:13 pm

      Speech is criminalized in Europe so no one from Europe or Canada should be talking. Forcing nuns to provide birth control or bakers to bake cakes does not sound like a beacon of freedom to me.

      • Christian Reply
        December 27, 2022 at 10:44 pm

        What does any of that have to do with a theocracy except the nuns part and I need your source on nuns being forced to distribute birth control.
        Oh and speech isn’t criminalized in Europe except Russia, hate speech is criminal. Fascists hate that.

        • John Dogas Reply
          December 28, 2022 at 12:12 am

          You obviously don’t believe in freedom and think individuals should be controlled by state sanctioned violence for speaking their minds. All speech is deemed hateful to someone yet only select groups are allowed to define hate and criminalize what they don’t like. Literally telling the truth is a crime in Europe if it offends select groups. Christians have been arrested in Europe for saying the Bible is the word of God as it relates to gays. Before casting stones at the Iranians, why don’t you look to your own house in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. that looks like an Orwellian nightmare.

          • Christian
            December 29, 2022 at 12:56 am

            Many words, no source. That means you made it up.

        • Chad Reply
          December 28, 2022 at 12:30 am

          There is no such thing as “hate speech”. People who use that term age the fascists.

          • Christian
            December 29, 2022 at 1:01 am

            Look up Nuremberg Laws.

    • queen Reply
      May 22, 2023 at 10:11 am

      bitch ur name is Christian stfu about theocracy here theocracy there blah blah nonsense bs

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