(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (KUNA) -- The US designated Friday Thailand-based My Aviation Company Limited for "acting for or on behalf of Mahan Air, an Iranian airline previously designated for supporting Iran's terrorism activities." Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin said in a statement that Mahan Air "continues to fly into Syria every week, even as millions of innocent civilians in Idlib province are under threat of imminent attack from the murderous Assad regime and its backers in Iran and Russia." He stressed that Treasury is cutting off "yet another service provider acting on behalf of Mahan Air, a sanctioned airline that transports soldiers and supplies to Assad and fuels terrorist activities across the region." "This Thailand-based company has disregarded numerous US warnings, issued publicly and delivered bilaterally to the Thai government, to sever ties with Mahan Air," he noted.
He added that this action "should serve as a warning that the US is intent on ensuring that the aviation industry ceases providing services to, and profiting from, this terrorist-affiliated airline." According to the Treasury, since the onset of the Syrian civil war, Mahan Air has "routinely flown fighters and materiel to Syria to prop up the Assad regime, which has contributed to mass atrocities in the country and the displacement of millions of innocent civilians." "Mahan Air continues to operate a regular schedule of three weekly flights to Syria, with additional flights periodically observed, totaling more than 170 flights since September 2017," it indicated. Mahan Air was designated in October 2011 "for providing financial, material, or technological support for or to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF)," which was itself designated in October 2007 for "its support to numerous terrorist groups." My Aviation provides cargo services to Mahan Air, "to include freight booking, and works with local freight forwarding entities to ship cargo aboard regularly scheduled Mahan Air flights to Tehran, Iran. My Aviation has also provided Mahan Air with passenger booking services." (end) si.ibi
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