The United States on Thursday issued new sanctions on Thursday targeting global networks supporting Mahan Air, the Iranian carrier Washington says transports Iran's Revolutionary Guards personnel, as well as weapons and drones.
A Mahan Air aircraft. The Iranian airline is controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps © Mena Today
The United States on Thursday issued new sanctions on Thursday targeting global networks supporting Mahan Air, the Iranian carrier Washington says transports Iran's Revolutionary Guards personnel, as well as weapons and drones.
The U.S. Treasury designated six entities and individuals in China, India, Russia and Iran, including several companies that act as sales agents for the U.S.- and E.U.-sanctioned airline, the department said in a statement.
The move comes as a drone strike on gas vessels in Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta signalled a potential new front in the U.S.-Iran war, raising the prospect of threats to navigation through the Suez Canal, one of the last remaining export routes for Saudi oil.
Treasury said it was also sanctioning a front company associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that has supported Iran's "kinetic targeting" during the war.
Thursday's action "further disrupts the network underpinning Iran’s destabilizing activities across the region," Treasury said.
Reporting by Andrea Shalal
Iran's armed forces announced Wednesday that several Persian-language media outlets based abroad, including BBC Persian, are on their "list of military targets," accusing them of working for US and Israeli intelligence.
Donald Trump said Wednesday he does "not think" Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since late February, "is dead."
Iran has held new talks with neighbouring Oman on management of the Strait of Hormuz, blockaded over nearly six months of conflict, with Oman's foreign minister saying he was hopeful a temporary corridor through the waterway could be announced soon.
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