TEHRAN, Dec 14 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation (CAO), dismissed any negative impact of recent U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s airlines.
The U.S. Treasury, on Wednesday, imposed new sanctions on the Iranian airline Mahan Air, and its shipping industry, accusing it of “transporting lethal aid from Iran to Yemen.”
Spokesman for the CAO, Reza Jafarzadeh, said that, “the U.S. sanctions against Iran and its airlines are not something new and every now and then a new embargo is imposed on our country.”
“The Americans have already imposed sanctions on various sectors of Iran, including airlines,” he said, adding that, “given the past experiences of Iran, the aviation industry officials anticipated such sanction and know how to deal with it.”
Since Dec last year, three European countries – Germany, France and Italy, have imposed a ban on Mahan Air flights.– NNN-IRNA
