Baku. 21 January. REPORT.AZ/ US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has welcomed the decision of the German Ministry of Transport to ban the Iranian airline Mahan Air from its airspace and urged the allies to follow this example, Report informs citing the RIA Novosti.
"The U.S. welcomes Germany’s decision to deny landing rights to Iran’s Mahan Air. The airline transports weapons and fighters across the Middle East, supporting the Iranian regime’s destructive ambitions around the region. We encourage all our allies to follow suit," Pompeo twitted.
Notably, Germany has banned from its airspace an Iranian airline accused of ferrying weapons and advisers to help support President Bashar Al-Assad's forces in Syria's civil war.