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Iranian Airline Linked to Revolutionary Guards Defied Coronavirus Ban on China Flights
(Telegraph-UK) Roland Oliphant and Ahmed Vahdat - Mahan Air, with links to Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, flew between Iran and China 157 times between early February and March, an analysis of flight tracking data by BBC Arabic found. Mahan said it was suspending flights to and from China on Feb. 2, in accordance with instruction from the World Health Organization. Mahan also continued to fly to Iraq after the government of that country banned flights from Iran on April 20, and to the UAE after it introduced a ban on Feb. 25. Iraq and Lebanon reported their first cases of coronavirus in travelers from Iran in February. The BBC claimed both cases arrived on Mahan Air flights.