Federal government is planning to impose new sanctions against Iran

Mahan since 2011 is on a sanction list of the United States. The government in Washington is pushing allies for years, Mahan operating the flight. The Iranian secret service is supposed to have perpetrated attacks in Europe, and more in the planning. The flight ban goes beyond sanctions imposed by the EU recently. the Georg Mascolo, Berlin

The Federal government imposed new sanctions against Iran. The reason was the suspicion that the secret service of the country of suicide bombings in Europe committed and more planned. According to information from the süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR, and WDR will expose in this week, the Federal aviation office in Braunschweig, the operating permit for the Iranian Mahan Airline. You fly per week from Tehran three times in Dusseldorf and once in Munich. The Foreign office informed, on request, about "internal policy coordination processes" use "any information".

Mahan since 2011 is on a sanctions list of the USA, for years, the government has urged Washington's allies, Mahan operating the flight. Its managing Director, Hamid Arabnejad Khanooki, is said to have close Links to the Iranian revolutionary guards. With the Mahan-machines to be flown to US-information, fighters, weapons and ammunition to Syria. The US government said that the airline had contributed to the "immense human suffering" in Syria. In December, the imagenewspaper had reported that the Federal government wanted to escape the "Terror-Airline of the Mullahs," the land rights. The company denied that there was "no indication that the message corresponds to the truth".

The flight ban goes beyond sanctions imposed by the EU already in the beginning of the month. According to the findings of the secret services, and investigations by the justice of the Iranian is supposed to have been committed by the secret service in the past few years, most likely two murders in the Netherlands and the attacks in Paris and Denmark, planned. In a case in Austria, stationed the Iranian Embassy was involved, who was arrested in July 2018 on a Bavarian motorway. In the meantime, he was extradited to Belgium. The Iranian government subsequently ordered the German Ambassador in Tehran. According to the previous findings, the Diplomat is said to have prepared a bomb attack on the Meeting of an Iranian opposition group in Paris. At the Meeting, and former New York city mayor Rudy Giuliani, and a Confidant of U.S. President Donald Trump voice. With the exposure of an alleged Iranian spy in the German army, the new sanctions do nothing.

In the past few decades, there were always assassinations of the Iranian regime in Europe, in Germany, a detention was issued, therefore, even the command against a Iranian chief of intelligence. After heavy diplomatic dispute, there was, for years, to no further actions. The now identified cases of concern to the Federal government. Already in 2017, it was reported that the Iranian secret service spying on the former SPD Bundestag deputies and long-time Chairman of the German-Israeli society, Reinhard Robbe,. According to the findings of the justice was a possible assassination attempt. Robbe said, "you sought me in my life." The government in Tehran, called all the allegations always a conspiracy by "enemies of Iran".