WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against 36 entities, including 27 Iranian airlines, as part of measures aimed at limiting financial and logistical networks linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The U.S. government says Iranian commercial airlines have supported activities attributed to Tehran for years by transporting weapons, personnel and other cargo.
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The companies named include Mahan Air, an airline previously sanctioned by Washington that, according to the Treasury Department, has been used to acquire and transport weapons and move personnel.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, expanded the sanctions to companies such as Air Shiraz, Asa Jet Airline, Ata Airlines Company, Atlas Aviation Group, Ava Airlines, Chabahar Airlines Company, Erwan Airline Company, Fly Kish Airlines, Fly Persia Airlines, Iran Air Tour and Iran Aseman Airlines.
The list also includes Jsky Airlines, Kish Airlines, Karun Airlines Company, Lad Airways, Mehr Airways, Nasim Air, Pars Oghyanous Kish Company, Qeshm Air, Raimon Airways, Saha Airlines, Sepehran Airlines, Soroush Air, Taban Airlines, Toos Airlines, Varesh Airlines and Zagros Airlines.
The sanctions on Iranian airlines were accompanied by measures against companies in third countries that, according to U.S. authorities, facilitate Mahan Air’s operations.
The affected companies include ECT Aviation Support UAE, based in the United Arab Emirates, and Sky Phoenix, established in Turkey. ECT Aviation Support UK, a British subsidiary of the first company, was also sanctioned.
Washington also designated Egyptian citizen Ibrahim Ali Mohamed Mohamed Mahran, identified as the chief executive and owner of ECT Aviation Support UAE, as well as Aerobravo Airplane Management, an aircraft operator based in the United Arab Emirates and owned by that company.
The measures also target cargo-service providers and agents connected to the sale of international flights operated by Mahan Air. They include Turkish companies S Sistem and Mes Cargo, Malaysia-based Icargo and Kazakhstan-based Tour Invest LLC.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that those who continue doing business with the sanctioned Iranian airlines risk being cut off from the global financial system as he presented the new U.S. measures.
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