U.S. Airlines Iran Asset Freeze

United States Treasury Department on Wednesday (10.12.2011), impose sanctions on Iranian airline, Mahan Air, and said they were "secretly been transporting members of the military forces" are accused of plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the U.S..
MOF said the commercial airline Mahan Air has carried members of the Corp-Qods Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the troops that are directly related to the plan, and Hezbollah in the Middle East.
Each airline's assets in the U.S. will now be frozen, and Americans will be banned from doing business with the company.
The announcement was made a day after Washington's increasing charges in Tehran, and the Treasury have stepped in to block the assets of five people associated directly with the alleged assassination plan, which has sent diplomatic shock waves around the world.
U.S. Treasury accused Mahan Air has carried spies Iran between Iran and Syria for military training and the Revolutionary Guard officials to enter and exit Iraq and transporting members of the hardline Islamic movement Hezbollah based in Lebanon. Enter the U.S. as a terrorist organization Hezbollah.
"Coordination between Mahan Air and IRGC-QF (Sacred Forces Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran) revealed extensive infiltration of surface other than the IRGC for Iran's commercial sector to facilitate assistance on terrorism," said David Cohen, head of the department of finance sanctions.
"After the disclosure about the use of the IRGC-QF for the international financial system to finance the planned murder-for-payroll, act now again highlights the risk that can not be denied to do business with Iran.
The Iranian government has denied U.S. allegations that, as well as the Revolutionary Guards accused directly.
Earlier, a spokesman said Victoria Nuland, the U.S. State Department has also issued a travel alert for U.S. citizens about the possibility of anti-American attacks associated with the state's accusations against Iran.