{"id":74931,"date":"2019-05-07T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=74931"},"modified":"2019-05-07T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:36:16","slug":"new-iran-air-director-is-on-u-s-sanctions-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/05\/07\/new-iran-air-director-is-on-u-s-sanctions-list\/","title":{"rendered":"New Iran Air Director Is On U.S. Sanctions List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74927\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IranAirWEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IranAirWEB.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IranAirWEB-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IranAirWEB-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IranAirWEB-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IranAirWEB-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>VOA &#8211; The newly appointed managing director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Airline (Iran Air) is on the U.S. sanctions list. Touraj Dehghani Zanganeh replaced state-owned Iran Air\u2019s first female director Farzaneh Sharafbafi on Sunday May 5. Previously, Mr. Zanganeh was the CEO of Meraj Airline which was established in 2010. The airline and its manager were sanctioned by the United States in 2018. According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin\u066b those sanctioned had helped IRGC Qods Force and the Iranian regime in airlifting weapons, money and troops to help Tehran\u2019s agents in the region including the Lebanese Hezbollah as well as Assad\u2019s regime in Syria.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Zanganeh is a retired Iranian army pilot who has served with the Iranian Air Force at Mehrabad airport for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Former Iran Air Manager Farzaneh Sharafbafi held a Ph.D. in aerospace science and led Iran Air\u2019s Training Department for many years during the 20 years she served the airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; The newly appointed managing director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Airline (Iran Air) is on the U.S. sanctions list. Touraj Dehghani Zanganeh replaced state-owned Iran Air\u2019s first female director Farzaneh Sharafbafi on Sunday May 5. Previously, Mr. Zanganeh was the CEO of Meraj Airline which was established in 2010. The airline and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}