US adds Iranian cargo planes to export violation list linked to Russia
The administration of US President Joe Biden has added three cargo airplanes operated by Iranian airlines to a list of aircraft which are claimed to have violated US export controls as part of Washington’s sanctions against Moscow over the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
The US Commerce Department said on Monday that three Boeing 747 airplanes operated by Mahan Air, Qeshm Fars Air, and Iran Air were added to the violation list over what it claimed to be “flying and transporting goods” to Russia.
“Using commercially available data, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security identified planes operated by Mahan Air, Qeshm Fars Air, and Iran Air flying and transporting goods, including electronic items, to Russia in apparent violation of the Commerce Department's stringent export controls on Russia,” the department said.
There are now a total of 183 aircraft on the list identified for apparent violations of the export controls, the department added.
Biden has repeatedly dismissed former President Donald Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran as a failure but he has been pursuing and even expanding the same failed policy in practice.
Back in May 2018, Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and initiated the so-called maximum pressure campaign against Tehran despite its full compliance with the pact.
While the Biden administration had voiced willingness to undo Trump’s “failed” policy toward Tehran and rejoin the ailing deal, it has retained the anti-Iran sanctions as leverage since talks began last year in the Austrian capital of Vienna to bring the US back into the deal.
However, Tehran insists all sanctions must first be removed in a verifiable manner before it reverses the “remedial measures” it has taken in response to the US withdrawal and maximum pressure policy.
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