Germany plans to ban Iranian airline Mahan Air from its airports, media reported Monday, in an escalation of sanctions adopted by the European Union against Iran over attacks on opponents in the bloc.
“The Federal Aviation Office (LBA) will this week suspend the operating license of Iranian airline Mahan,” reported Munich-based daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
A spokesman for the foreign ministry in Berlin told the paper it “does not inform about internal political decision-making processes”.
Mahan, Iran’s second-largest carrier after Iran Air, flies four services a week between Tehran and the German cities Duesseldorf and Munich.