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Iran: Jordan Assisted U.S. in Harassing Iranian Passenger Plane
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall - The Iranian Nour news agency, considered close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), reported that Jordan assisting U.S. Air Force F-15 combat aircraft to intercept an Iranian passenger plane flying to Beirut last week. The report claimed that Jordan permitted American "warplanes and drones" to take off from al-Azraq air base in Jordan, from where drones were also dispatched to assassinate Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. Jordan denied that it was involved in the Soleimani mission. Relations between Iran and Jordan are correct, and the accusation against Jordan is unusual. Iranian attempts to operate in Jordanian territory against Israel have met with limited success in the face of counterintelligence actions by Israel and Jordan. The writer, an expert on strategic issues with a focus on Iran, is a senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center.