New US sanctions ‘a warning to anyone supporting Iran’s airlines’
The Trump administration issued 36 sanctions targeting Iranian aviation and companies supporting it, including Turkish, Malaysian, and Emirati firms. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that anyone doing business with Iran's remaining airlines risks being cut off from the global financial system. The Office of Foreign Assets Control can penalise businesses that unwittingly supported Iranian aviation if they 'should have known'.
Why it matters: This matters for the briefing's sanctions theme: third-country forwarders now face liability even for unwitting support of Iranian airlines.