Mahan Airlines, operating under the name Mahan Air – a privately owned Iranian airline based in Tehran, which has been a target of US sanctions since 2011, has been repeatedly accused by Washington of having deep ties with the Iraninan Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and regularly transporting its troops and hardware around the region.
Yesterday US announced new sanctions against Mahan Air, accused of “weapons of mass destruction proliferation” and transportation of lethal aid to Yemen.
“The Iranian regime uses its aviation and shipping industries to supply its regional terrorist and militant groups with weapons, directly contributing to the devastating humanitarian crises in Syria and Yemen,” US Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin said in a statement.