A prominent Iranian lawmaker has blamed the US for the disappearance of
Malaysian flight MH370, claiming Washington wants to cause
"psychological warfare" between Iran and China.
Hossein Naghavi
Hosseini, the spokesman for Iran's Parliament National Security and
Foreign Policy Committee, said the missing plane has been "kidnapped" by
the US in order to "sabotage the relationship between Iran and China
and South East Asia".
Hosseini was responding to the news that two of
the 239 passengers on board the flight were Iranians with forged
passports. This lead to some speculation the plane may have been
involved in a terrorist attack or a botched hijacking.
Hosseini described this as a "plot" against Iran initiated by the US.
"Documents
published by the Western media about two Iranians getting on the plane
without passports is psychological warfare," he told the Tasnim news
agency.
"Americans recruit some people for such kinds of operations
so they can throw the blame on other countries, especially Muslim
countries."
Officials said that the two men who used forged documents to board the flight had no links to terrorist organisations.
Iran's foreign ministry said it was ready to cooperate in the investigations.
"We
have received information on possible presence of two Iranians among
the plane's crews. We are pursuing the issue," said Marzieh Afkham, the
Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman.
"We have informed our embassy
in Malaysia that we are ready to receive further information about the
issue from Malaysian officials. We have announced that we were ready for
cooperation."
Confusion still reigns over where MH370 could be,
spurred on by Malaysian officials being unable to clarify the plane's
last known movements.
There were reports the plane was tracked flying
over the Malacca Strait by a military radar – far to the west of its
planned route. This would have proved the plane was in the air for more
than an hour after it vanished from radar.
"It changed course after
Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca
Strait," the unnamed official told Reuters.
Malaysia's air force
chief denied the reports came from him, but instead pointed out the air
force had " not ruled out the possibility of an air turn-back".
Vietnam
has said it has stopped its air search and scaled back its sea search
until Malasia can offer more detail on the flight's suggested
whereabouts.
"We've decided to temporarily suspend some search and
rescue activities, pending information from Malaysia," Vietnam's deputy
transport minister Pham Quy Tieu told reporters.
"We still have plans to search with a few flights today, while other activities are suspended."
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