Mahan Air

November 5, 2024 | David Daoud, Ahmad Sharawi

Hezbollah’s Unit 4400

On October 1, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the killing of Mohammad Jaafar Qasir, a high-value Hezbollah operative who commanded the group’s Unit 4400—the body responsible for transporting...

October 22, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Lebanon’s Airport to Fund Terrorism; The World Must Respond

The Lebanese government has a choice to make — reclaim effective control of its main international airport from Hezbollah, or see that air hub destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. As government ministers...

August 29, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah’s Beirut Airport Powder Keg

Lebanon could be setting itself up for a repeat of the disastrous 2020 Beirut explosion.

July 1, 2024 | |

Finance Watchdog Removes Turkey From Grey List Despite Ongoing Support for Hamas

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) — an international money laundering and terror finance watchdog — removed Turkey from its grey list of countries that require stricter...

June 22, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba Exploit the U.S. Border Crisis

Latin America’s authoritarians are cooperating to increase illegal immigration to the United States.

February 19, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How the US can ground Iran’s ‘terrorist airlines’

The Biden administration has a unique opportunity to step up its campaign against anti-American regimes in Venezuela, Iran and Nicaragua. Recent actions demonstrate that serious application...

April 26, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

What Is Venezuela Flying to Moscow?

Iran is a willing accomplice in the rape of Ukraine. Iranian drones have helped Russia sustain its terror attacks against Ukrainian civilian targets and infrastructure even as Russia’s arsenal became...

November 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Grounded: Why Biden Must Sanction Iranian Aviation

Iran’s airlift does not rely on a massive fleet. The Biden administration’s sanctions arsenal can make a difference.

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...

July 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz |

Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing

In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

May 1, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Foil the Financiers of Iran’s Terrorism

The Biden administration believes Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization. So why lift sanctions on banks that help fund it?

November 9, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Is Iran Sending Weapons to Venezuela? And How Is the U.S. Responding?

An Iranian cargo plane gets stranded in Senegal on its way to Caracas.

August 7, 2020 | Alireza Nader |

China’s Plan To Buy Iran Won’t Go So Smoothly

Yet Washington should be worried about an enhanced Chinese presence in Iran.

June 5, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Saeed Ghasseminejad

COVID-19 in Iran and Turkey: Mismanagement, Crackdowns, Economic Crises, and Corona-Diplomacy

Iran and Turkey have been the two countries in the Middle East hardest hit by COVID-19. Their respective epidemics – which both governments have largely mismanaged – have amplified their democratic...

May 26, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Treasury Sanctions China-based Logistics Company Supporting Mahan Air

The U.S. Department of the Treasury last week sanctioned Shanghai-based Saint Logistics Company, a Chinese general sales agent for the U.S.-sanctioned Iranian airline Mahan Air. The move marks a warning...

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,...

May 5, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Sanctioned Iran airline flew first cases of coronavirus into Mideast

Mahan Air ignored safety and travel restrictions

May 1, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Airlifting Supplies to Venezuela. The Trump Administration Should Move to Block It.

The Islamic Republic can leverage the Maduro regime's ability to access sanctioned goods as payment for its services.

April 14, 2020 | David Adesnik |

COVID-19 in Regime-Held Syria

The regime of Bashar al-Assad continues to report implausibly low numbers of COVID-19 cases, while evidence mounts of deliberate deception. The presence of tens of thousands of Iranian-backed militia fighters...