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Intel: How Trump continues to restrict humanitarian trade with Iran

The Donald Trump administration on Wednesday sanctioned Tehran’s biggest airline and shipping network, charging them with transporting Iranian weapons in a move that could further restrict the flow of humanitarian goods into Iran.

An Airbus A340-600 airplane of Mahan Air is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas, Venezuela April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins - RC1E1A8BA0C0
An Airbus A340-600 airplane of Mahan Air is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas, Venezuela, April 8, 2019. — REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

The Donald Trump administration on Wednesday sanctioned Tehran’s biggest airline and shipping network, charging them with transporting Iranian weapons in a move that could further restrict the flow of humanitarian goods into Iran.

The Treasury Department sanctioned Mahan Air, accusing it of flying soldiers and lethal aid into Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad. At the same time, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States will sanction the Shanghai-based ESAIL shipping company starting June 2020, asserting that it “knowingly transports illicit materials from Iran’s aerospace industries organization, which oversees all of Iran’s missile industry.”

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