Thursday, June 25, 2015

U.S.-sanctioned Mahan Air jetliners operate regular flights to Europe

Amateur imagery has been posted from Athens International Airport (see below), depicting Mahan Air Airbus A340-642 aircraft registrations EP-MMH and EP-MMR operating regularly scheduled Flight W558 (IKA to ATH), and Flight W559 (ATH to IKA).

U.S. Treasury department on 21MAY15 stated  Mahan Air had a "blockable interest" in the planes, meaning they could be subject to an asset freeze, raising the possibility that Washington may attempt to have them seized at airports outside Iran.

Iran is currently flying regular routes with these sanctioned aircraft, to destinations Dubai, Ankara and Athens. Iran's aviation authority stated on 08JUN15 the country would take legal action if Washington tries to stop newly acquired Iranian passenger planes flying international routes.

Mahan Air Airbus A340-642, reg. EP-MMH (cn 391), Flight W559 ATH to IKA
Photographed 21JUN15 by Alex Filippopoulos

Mahan Air Airbus A340-642, reg. EP-MMH at Athens International Airport
Photographed 21JUN15 by Alex Filippopoulos

 
Mahan Air Airbus A340-642, reg. EP-MMH at Athens International Airport
Photographed 21JUN15 by Alex Filippopoulos

Mahan Air Airbus A340-642, reg. EP-MMR (cn 416), Flight W558 IKA to ATH
Photographed 23JUN15 by Alex Filippopoulos

Mahan Air Airbus A340-642, reg. EP-MMR at Athens International Airport
Photographed 23JUN15 by Alex Filippopoulos

Mahan Air Airbus A340-642, reg. EP-MMR at Athens International Airport
Photographed 23JUN15 by Alex Filippopoulos



Flights W558 and W559 info for Mahan Air Airbus A340-642 registration EP-MMH (click to enlarge):
[source: Flightradar24]

Flights W558 and W559 info for Mahan Air Airbus A340-642 registration EP-MMR (click to enlarge):
[source: Flightradar24]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's quite impossible to " trade sanction a nation of traders " Iranians are clever tradesmen ,dodging sanctions has become a must this video gives an example of that ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6V3spQa9ns

news clip from Iranian TV ,reporting on the startup of a hi-tech water treatment plant for the city of Birjand ,South khorasan province most of the material used in construction of the plant are considered to be dual use and Band for export to Iran ,Reverse Osmosis membranes ,Nano-filtration Elements, Super Duplex Piping and Pumps are a few examples .
On T-1:03" the units project manager states that the know how have been purchased from europe and the plant has been built onsite and from now on the technology is localized ("بومی سازی") a code name used now a days for reverse engineered copies of technology .
in reality the European company entrusted to build the plant refused to finish it in 2009 siting sanctions and difficulties in connection with the supply of dual use material refusing to pay back advanced payments they had received and the local contractor used the data obtained from a very small pilot plant they had constructed to demonstrate their performance of their 2006 patented technology to construct the huge 720lts/sec treatment plant on their own.this plant is constructed to remove heavy metals including Cr+6 from drinking water and the technology is very efficient Bravo Iran ,Necessity is the mother of all inventions

Anonymous said...

Can the U.S actually go after real terrorists and do something constructive for a change...seems like they care more about Irans progress than stopping ISIL...