#1 BERLIN—The US sanctioned Iranian Mahan Air ignored travel and safety restrictions, enabling the first cases of the deadly coronavirus to spread into Iraq and Lebanon... BBC Arabic reported: "As coronavirus spread worldwide, strict travel restrictions were imposed. But they were ignored by some. BBCArabic can reveal that the first coronavirus cases in Iraq and Lebanon were flown into the country, on Mahan Air flights” ...BBC News Arabic has analysed flight tracking data and open source footage which shows how Iran's largest airline - Mahan Air - continued to fly while government flight bans were in place, contributing to the spread of Covid-19 in the Middle East.”
It added that “Mahan Air ran hundreds of flights to and from Iran, Iraq, the UAE and Syria between late January and the end of March. They gave Mahan Air permission to land. And they did so while their ban on flights from Iran were in place.” |