The security tensions with Iran: The “Iran International” website, which is affiliated with the opposition in Iran and operates from Britain, reported last night that the Israeli attack on Damascus airport caused severe damage to the operations of two Iranian airlines to the point of stopping their operations in the country. Based on intelligence agencies in the West, the website reported that after the unusual attack, the flights of Caspian Air and Fars Air Qeshm, which are under US sanctions due to their activities in the service of the Revolutionary Guards, were stopped.
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In the meantime, following the attack, the flights between the two countries continued to be carried out by the company “Mahan Air”, which is also under US sanctions since 2011, due to its active role in the activities of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards of the Islamic Republic, including weapons shipments to pro-Iranian terrorist groups around the world. According to Western intelligence sources, Hamid ArabanjadCEO of Mahan Air, recently visited Syria at the opening ceremony of the new line to the airport in the city of Aleppo, against the background of the increased activity of the company on the Iran-Syria route.
At the same time, the group of hackers known as “Homeland Vigilantes” reported the close cooperation of the airline Mahan Air with the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards. The group revealed many cases in which fake airline tickets were ordered with fake names and identities at the expense of the company. Also, this group discovered that the airline operates in the service of the Quds Force under a cover name, and that sometimes hundreds of people with the same name fly at the same time on the company’s planes.
According to the website affiliated with the Iranian opposition, Amir Asadullahia former pilot at Mahan Air, said that already in 1992, Kasem Soleimani He flew with 200 other passengers, when in the plane’s cargo, there was “forbidden cargo” weighing seven tons, and after bribing the pilots and inspectors, he managed to instigate the flight from Iraq to Syria. Also, the site indicates that at the same time as the Israeli attacks on the weapons depots in Syria increase, the Quds Force relies mainly on Mahan Air airliners, more than before.
An Iranian Mahan Air plane (Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi)As mentioned, immediately after the attack attributed to Israel at the airport in Damascus, the Syrian Ministry of Transportation announced that it had suspended flights at the airport for “technical reasons”, however, previous intelligence photographs by the satellite and intelligence solutions company ImageSat International (ISI) show that the attack led to the complete shutdown of the two runways, the civil and the military.
After the attack, the Russians condemned Israel. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Michael Bogdanov Met with the Israeli ambassador in Moscow Alex is a military man and expressed to him a protest about the attack on the Damascus airport about a week ago, attributed to the Israeli Air Force. Bogdanov told the Israeli ambassador that the attack damaged international civilian air traffic and also delayed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to millions of Syrians, which was carried out by the United Nations Aviation Service and was disrupted.
Photographs of the Damascus airport restoration works, from the intelligence report of ImageSat International (ISI) (Photo: ImageSat International (ISI) www.imagesatintl.com)As a reminder, in December 2011 the US Treasury announced that Mahan Air is defined as a “terrorist supporter”, as it provides “financial, material and technological support to the Revolutionary Guards. The company, based in Tehran, provides transportation services, money transfers and travel services to members of the Revolutionary Guards “. In recent years, the company expanded its operations, when it began to hold, in addition to the flights to Europe, also flights between destinations in Asia, including China, and several countries in Europe. However, in 2016 it was banned from flying over Saudi airspace.