Contemporary US sanctions target plane veteran by Iran’s Rouhani

The US has imposed unique sanctions towards an airline firm, which automatically transports Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

In a assertion on Thursday, the US Department of the Treasury stated Dena Airways is being designated for sanctions in step with a 2001 presidential relate designed « to obstruct terrorist funding ».    

Dena Airways handles flights for the authorities of Iran. In November 2017, a previously US-sanctioned airline, Meraj Air, transferred its « VIP flight operations » to Dena Airways, the US assertion stated.

In step with Trita Parsi, govt director of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), Dena Airways operates handiest one plane, which is being veteran by President Rouhani.

« So what’s Trump’s goal? Humiliate Iran’s moderates and beef up its hardliners, » Parsi wrote on social media.

In step with public data supplied by the websites AirFleets, Dena Airways operates handiest one plane, a 19-year-archaic Airbus A340-300.

The unique sanctions could presumably presumably prevent the use of the Dena Airways plane for abundant lumber « as ground handling companies worldwide could presumably presumably refuse to refuel/provider the plane », Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founder of Bourse Bazaar websites, wrote on social media.

He referred to the Dena Airways plane as Iran’s own model of Air Pressure One, which transports the US president. 

There changed into once no instantaneous reaction from the Iranian authorities on essentially the most neatly-liked sanctions. 

Two Iranians linked to Dena Airways and a Turkish businesswoman named Gulnihal Yegane, are also being sanctioned, as are three aviation-connected companies linked to Yegane.

Those contributors are now being designated as « global terrorists », based mostly on US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

‘Facilitators’

Mnuchin accused the Iran and Turkey-based mostly « facilitators » of providing companies to four Iranian airways already on the US sanctions checklist.

Amongst those airways listed are Mahan Air, Caspian Air, Meraj Air and Pouya Air. 

He stated the actions of those contributors on behalf of the airways « prolong a lifeline » to the Islamic Modern Guard Corps (IRGC) and « enable the Iranian regime to transfer weapons, opponents, and money to its proxies » together with Hezbollah, and « prop up » Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.

Mnuchin also warned that nations and corporations all around the realm could presumably presumably concern punishment by granting landing rights and providing aviation companies to those Iranian airliners.  

A entire of 31 aircrafts affiliated with those airways comprise also been added to the sanctions checklist. 

Of those airways, the US authorities singled out Mahan Air for taking part in « a considerable position in exporting the Iranian regime’s malign affect. »

It stated Mahan Air transported « operatives » of the IRGC, moreover to weapons and equipment to Syria. Mahan has the ultimate option of aircrafts in Iran.  

The IRGC is a branch of Iran’s armed forces that experiences straight to the Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The US has been hanging financial force on Iran, following US President Donald Trump’s device to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Closing week, US designated two top officers of the Central Bank of Iran as « terrorists », for their alleged position in funneling « thousands and thousands of bucks » to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

This week, it also presented sanctions towards top officers of the IRGC for allegedly providing ballistic missile-connected abilities to armed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

On Monday, US Secretary of Issue Mike Pompeo presented a brand unique policy in direction of Iran, declaring that unless Iran complies with American demands, it faces « the strongest sanctions in history » and « remarkable financial force » from Washington, DC.

In response, Rouhani denounced the US demands asserting, « Who are you to assume for Iran and the realm? »