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Iran's Mahan cancels flights over sanctions
[Rudaw] Iran's Mahan Air has been forced to cancel its Gay Paree flights over "sanctions", its customer services team said Tuesday weeks after Germany banned the airline."We have been told that (flights to La Belle France) have been cancelled... as of the first of April," an operator at the airline's office in Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport told AFP. The Gay Paree schedule will be scrapped "because of sanctions" by the French, the source said by phone without elaborating. Two of the airline's French customers in Iran were notified by email that their flights booked for next month were cancelled. Mahan, the Islamic republic's second-largest carrier after Iran Air, flies up to four services a week between Tehran and Gay Paree. Germany imposed a ban on Mahan in January, which the foreign ministry said was necessary to protect Berlin's "foreign and security policy interests". That decision came amid broader sanctions adopted by the European Union  ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...against Tehran over attacks on opponents in the bloc. Iran has denied any involvement in the alleged plots and described Germany's move as "hasty and unjustifiable." Mahan Air was blacklisted by the US in 2011, as Washington said the carrier was providing technical and material support to an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards known as the Quds Force. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-20 |
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