Allah smacks down another planeload of Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Military plane crashes in Tehran:

An Iranian military plane has crashed while taking off from an airport in Tehran, killing elite troops.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that 36 people on board the Russian-built Antonov-74 had been killed - 30 soldiers and six crew.

Two soldiers survived and were being treated in hospital, it added.

The commander of the Revolutionary Guards suggested to a local news agency that there may have been foul play, but he gave no further details.

The plane was due to fly from Mehrabad airport to the southern city of Shiraz.

Posted on 03 December 2006 @ 17:25 GMT