US President Donald Trump has suggested that the pilot of a Flydubai service from Dubai to Tel Aviv, who got into a violent altercation with his co-pilot, may have links to Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Asked by a reporter if he had been briefed on whether the pilot had links to Tehran, Trump responds, “We’re working on it right now; we’re very open with them. I would say the answer, based on what I’m hearing, is yes, but we’re working on it right now.”
When asked a follow-up question about whether the pilot was put on the flight by the IRGC, or radicalised elsewhere, Trump replies, “Could have been, yeah.”
