Iran’s national airline being run by Revolutionary Guard commander
Intelligence obtained by National Council of Resistance of Iran reveals IRGC brigadier secretly tasked with control of Iran Air since 2022
Telegraph, April 2, 2024
Iran’s national airline is run by a senior commander from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The Telegraph can disclose. It comes amid calls for Brussels to stop the airline from flying to Europe as part of a sanctions package over Tehran’s shipment of missiles and military hardware to its Middle Eastern proxies and Russia.
Intelligence obtained by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the country’s exiled opposition movement, has found Brigadier Shamseddin Farzadipour to be controlling Iran Air. Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top foreign diplomat, has so far resisted pressure from France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as the United States, to ramp up measures against Iran, arguing new sanctions would harm diplomatic outreach to Tehran.
But new evidence of a link between the Islamic regime’s shipment of weapons and its national airline will bring renewed focus on calls for penalties. Brig Farzadipour has been secretly tasked with running Iran Air since April 2022.
Before his appointment, he was the aviation commander for the IRGC’s Air and Space force, and had flown Soviet-era Ilyushin-76 transport planes between Iran and Syria to deliver supplies to its Quds Force helping to prop up President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The Iranian special forces unit has historically used Iran Air to transfer money, weapons and equipment to its foreign proxies. It was also allegedly used to ship supplies to Asadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat convicted of plotting a bomb attack on an opposition rally in Paris.
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