Tehran - Two Iranian media reports caused confusion on Tuesday with reports that Iranian military jets forced a US Falcon plane with five senior US military and three security officials on board to land in Iran. Fars reported that the plane coming from Turkey had illegally entered Iranian airspace and was therefore forced by Iranian jets to land at one of the country's airports.
Fars added that the five generals were interrogated by Iranian intelligence forces.
After it had become clear that their entry into Iranian airspace was unintentional and that their destination was Afghanistan, the generals were released and allowed to leave after 24 hours.
The Tehran-based Arabic-language satellite television channel Al Alam quoted an unnamed official as saying that the plane did not belong to the Americans but there were US military officers on board and that the plane was allowed on Monday to continue its flight to Afghanistan.
But the same TV later quoted another unnamed official as saying that the plane was neither American nor were there any American military officers on board.
The second unnamed official said that the plane was an Hungarian aid plane and the incident happened at the end of September 30 and not in the last 48 hours.
