He was interviewed yesterday, let me see if I can find it:
An unnamed Iranian, who met both passengers in Malaysia and went with them to the airport, has spoken to the BBC's Persian service about the days before their departure.
"One of the two was my friend from high school," he told BBC Persian on Monday by phone from Malaysia, apparently referring to Nour Mohammad.
"I met him the first day he arrived in Malaysia
He said he was staying for three to four days but was eventually going to Germany. His final destination was Frankfurt," the friend said.
Nour Mohammad's latest posts on Facebook show him in Kuala Lumpur. "Feeling excited," he wrote as he arrived in Malaysia in late February. In one of his earlier posts, he asked friends to "pray" for him, possibly worried about the risks of travelling on a forged document.
According to the friend, Nour Mohammad and Delawar stayed for almost a week in Malaysia before their departure.
"We went together to book the flights, and I even had his booking number and was checking his flight status online all the time," he said. "That's why I remember which flight he was taking: I had seen his flight number.
"I accompanied them to the airport. It was almost 8pm that we headed to the airport, and we arrived around 9pm to 9.15pm at the airport and we stayed in the car for few minutes and chatted."
The friend said he had discovered the pair were planning to travel with stolen passports during the final days of their stay.
"The last night before the flight, they both stayed at mine," he said. "His [Nour Mohammad's] friend was dying his beard and hair and was checking the colour to match with the picture of a passport. He was making himself look like the photo in the passport," he told BBC Persian.
"When we printed the tickets, I realised that the passports were fake. My friend's passport belonged to Austria and my friend's friend had a passport belonging to Italy
They had three flights to take: from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, from Beijing to I think Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam my friend was heading to Frankfurt and his friend was going to another country."
He said his friend's mother had since contacted him and asked him to inform the airline about his forged passport.
"His mother told me how he got hold of the fake passport. He had bought the fake passport and wanted to go [to Germany] to seek asylum, and his mother told me his son was travelling with another person.
"My last contact with the two was 11.30pm, when they had passed the immigration gate. I wanted to make sure they found their way. They said they were waiting to get on the plane. I have [since the mother's contact] informed the airline, and this is how I've made sure they were aboard the flight."
"We believe [Nour Mohammad] is not likely to be a member of any terror group and we believe he was trying to migrate to Germany," he said.
Both passports, it has been revealed, were stolen in Thailand. Interpol said they were reported as stolen in the past two years. It was unclear how the Iranians have got their hands on them but it is not the first time Iranian asylum seekers have used forged documents in order to reach Europe.
Tickets for the two were reportedly bought in the Thai city of Pattaya, via an Iranian identified by the travel agent Benjaporn Krutnait - owner of Grand Horizon travel - as Mr Ali. There was no suggestion Mr Ali had any links with the forged passports.
On Tuesday, Iran's foreign ministry said it was pursuing information about possible Iranians aboard the lost Malaysian plane and was prepared to share information. "We are offering our cooperation to obtain more information," said the ministry's spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...alaysian-plane-mh370-iranian-forged-passports
