Iran Air

October 15, 2024 | |

EU and UK Sanction Iranian Targets in Protest of Tehran’s Transfer of Weapons to Russia and Attack on Israel

The European Union (EU) joined the United Kingdom (UK) in sanctioning seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and multiple Iranian airlines on October 14. In...

September 15, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Why isn’t Biden enforcing his own sanctions against Iran?

The Biden administration periodically promulgates new sanctions against Iran and its proxies. That is a sound policy. But sanctions without enforcement are easy to circumvent.  Case in point: Last...

September 10, 2024 | |

Blinken Confirms Iranian Ballistic Missile Transfers to Russia

Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on September 10 that the Islamic Republic of Iran is supplying Russia with Fath-360 close-range ballistic missiles for use in Ukraine....

November 10, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s terror drone pipeline to Moscow

On October 17, Kyiv residents woke up to loud explosions. Russia had just launched a wave of drone attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine, which it carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 “suicide...

June 14, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Lost at Sea: How Two Iranian Warships Are Testing American Mettle

The Biden administration has tried to deflect anything that could possibly derail negotiations for a new nuclear deal.

March 26, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

July 15, 2020 | Alireza Nader |

Why won’t Trudeau demand more from Iran?

The Islamic Republic in Iran is about to execute three young Iranian men for their participation in the November 2019 popular uprising against the regime. But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is no...

May 6, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal, Mikhael Smits 

EU should sanction Iranian airlines exporting coronavirus and terror

Amid a global coronavirus pandemic, two Iranian airlines sanctioned by the United States for “secretly ferrying operatives, weapons, and funds” to Syria have flown dozens of times between China,...

April 1, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German health minister stops flights from Iran due to lack of transparency

The Jerusalem Post reported in March that German airports and authorities defied an announcement from Transportation Minister Andreas Scheuer to bar flights from Iran.

March 24, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Former Italian FM slams gov’t for permitting Iran Air flights to land

Says that instead of keeping contagion from Iran and China away, Italian authorities authorize Iran Air flights from Tehran to stop over in our airports.

December 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: German gov’t will ban Iran’s ‘terror’ Mahan Air

BILD reported that American politicians and security officials told the German government that American citizens are endangered at airports because of Mahan Air's activities in the Federal Republic.

November 6, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

New Treasury Sanctions Target Iran Air

In its largest ever single-day action against Iran, the U.S. Treasury designated...

October 24, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German bank holds account for soon-to-be-sanctioned Iran Air

Iran Air has been accused of aiding Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his war against Syrian opposition groups.

May 9, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Deal or no deal, Trump should punish Iran’s aviation sector

The decision on whether or not Boeing should sell passenger aircraft to Iran should not be made by Boeing, but by President Trump, says FDD’s Emanuele Ottolenghi in his latest piece for...

March 2, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Trump Should Block Iran’s Air Corridor to Syria

Last month, an Iranian drone reportedly violated Israeli airspace after taking off from a base i...

January 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany Permits Iranian Regime Mass Murderer to Flee the Country

Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi – considered a successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – fled Germany on Thursday for Iran amid criminal complaints filed against him for ...

September 26, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz |

How Trump Can Improve the Iran Deal

Co-authored by David Albright. Powerful voices at home and abroad are pressuring President Trump to give his blessing to his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. Mr....

August 31, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The nuclear deal is on a knife-edge…but Iran is thriving

The Iran nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), that was implemented in January 2016 has emboldened Iran and given its leaders additional resources to pu...

August 22, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Trump’s Iran problem takes to the skies with Iran Air

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August 2, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Ramps Up Purchases of Commercial Aircraft from U.S. and Europe

Last June, a trio of Iranian airlines announced plans to purchase a total of 83 new planes from Airbus an...