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How an Iranian airline 'helped spread coronavirus'

An Open Source Investigation by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News Arabic has found how one Iranian airline contributed to the spread of the virus around the Middle East.

An Open Source Investigation by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News Arabic has analysed flight tracking data and open source footage which shows how Iran's largest airline - Mahan Air - continued to fly while government flight bans were in place, and contributed to the spread of Covid-19 in the Middle East.
Mahan Air ran hundreds of flights to and from Iran, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Syria between late January and the end of March. All these countries gave Mahan Air permission to land. And they did so while their own bans on routine flights from Iran were in place.
Sources within the airline told the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ that dozens of Mahan Air’s cabin crew were showing symptoms of Covid-19 and that when staff tried to raise concerns about the airline’s management of the crisis and provision of safety equipment, they were silenced.
Mahan Air is sanctioned by the US for its links to the powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Video produced by: Nader Ibrahim, Owen Pinnell and Manisha Ganguly
Graphics by Jasmine Bonshor
Edited by Bettina Waked

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