{"id":24027204,"date":"2026-09-22T11:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/iranian-airlines-grounded-worldwide-us-sanctions-september-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:07:15","slug":"iranian-airlines-grounded-worldwide-us-sanctions-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/iranian-airlines-grounded-worldwide-us-sanctions-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Airlines Grounded Worldwide From Wednesday, US Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sanctions usually work slowly. You cannot buy this aircraft, you cannot get that part, and a fleet quietly ages into uselessness over twenty years. What the US Treasury Secretary described on Monday is something faster and blunter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&ldquo;On September 23, all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world,&rdquo; Scott Bessent told CNBC. Wednesday, in other words. Tomorrow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The threat is not aimed at the airlines. It is aimed at everyone who touches them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;If they land, you cannot provide them with fuel, you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell them tickets, or you will be knocked out of the dollar system.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong> &mdash; US Treasury Secretary, speaking to CNBC on 21 September 2026<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f2f4f7;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117;letter-spacing:.02em\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.55\"><tbody><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">What was said<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">Iranian airlines will be shut out of international operations from 23 September 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Who said it<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, on CNBC, 21 September 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">The mechanism<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">Secondary sanctions on foreign airports, fuel suppliers, handling agents and ticketing companies<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">The penalty<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">Being cut off from the US dollar financial system<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Legal basis<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">Executive Orders 13224 and 13902, plus an aviation sector determination of 24 August 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Recent action<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">8 September 2026: OFAC sanctioned 36 targets and designated 27 Iranian airlines<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Already designated<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">Mahan Air since October 2011; a State Department designation followed in December 2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Also suspended<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#0d1117;font-weight:600\">Three Iran-related aviation authorisations, including overflight permissions<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How you ground an airline without touching it<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>An airliner on an international route is not a self-sufficient machine. It needs someone to sell it a ramp slot, someone to push a fuel bowser up to it, someone to load the bags, someone to file the flight plan, and somewhere to sell the seats. Almost every one of those services is provided by a company that would very much like to keep its access to the US dollar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That is the whole design of a secondary sanction. Washington is not telling Iran Air it cannot fly. It is telling a ground handler in a third country that fuelling an Iranian aircraft will cost it the ability to bank in dollars, which for most of the aviation supply chain is the same as telling it to stop trading. Faced with that choice, the handler stops. The aircraft sits.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The practical effect, if it works as described, is that Iranian carriers lose the ability to operate anywhere they need foreign services, which is anywhere outside Iran.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/mahan-air-airbus-a340-642-ep-mmh.jpg\" alt=\"A Mahan Air Airbus A340-642 registered EP-MMH\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Mahan Air Airbus A340-600. Mahan has been under US designation since 2011, and Treasury says it received at least three Boeing 777s this summer routed through the UAE and Oman. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Operation Economic Outcast<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Monday's statement did not come out of nowhere. On 24 August the Treasury announced what it called Operation Economic Outcast, and internally dubbed &ldquo;Economic D-Day&rdquo;, issuing determinations against critical sectors of the Iranian economy including aviation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On 8 September, OFAC followed through. It sanctioned 36 targets supporting Iran's aviation sector and designated 27 Iranian airlines under Executive Order 13902, a list that reads like a directory of the country's commercial aviation: Iran Aseman, Qeshm Air, Zagros, Taban, Saha, Kish, Ata, Iran Air Tour, Varesh, Sepehran and seventeen more. Mahan Air did not need adding; it has been designated since October 2011 for supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, with a further State Department designation under the counter-proliferation order in December 2019.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Let this be a warning to anyone doing business with Iran&rsquo;s remaining airlines, all of which we sanctioned today: You are at risk of being cut off from the global financial system.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong> &mdash; US Treasury Secretary, announcing the 8 September 2026 sanctions action<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The overflight clause<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Buried in the same action is a measure that will be felt by airlines with no Iranian connection at all. OFAC suspended three Iran-related aviation authorisations, including ones permitting overflights and allowing non-US airlines to fly US-origin or US-controlled commercial aircraft into Iran.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Think about what that second clause covers. Almost every widebody in the world is either American-built or contains American-controlled technology, which is precisely why sanctions bite so hard in aviation. Withdrawing that permission means foreign carriers flying Boeings, or Airbuses with American systems, lose their legal cover for operating into Iranian airports. Treasury said it will consider aviation safety-related requests case by case.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Three 777s, two countries, one paper trail<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The most revealing part of the September action is not the airline list. It is the procurement chain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>According to Treasury, Mahan Air received at least three Boeing 777s during summer 2026, diverted through the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Each aircraft came out of a retired fleet, passed through a UAE company called ECT Aviation Support, where it picked up a temporary registration, and moved on. A T\u00fcrkiye-based firm, Sky Phoenix, acted as the other intermediary. Treasury noted that the route closely mirrored previous sanctions-evasion operations for the same airline.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>OFAC also designated cargo agents and general sales agents servicing Mahan Air's international flights in T\u00fcrkiye, Malaysia and Kazakhstan, one of which it says coordinated shipments of uncrewed aerial vehicle components destined for Iran.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That is the argument the US makes for treating Iranian commercial aviation as a security problem rather than a transport one: that the same airlines moving passengers are moving other things.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A fleet that was already dying slowly<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Whatever happens on Wednesday, Iranian civil aviation was in trouble long before it. Decades of sanctions have made it very hard for Iranian carriers to buy new aircraft or obtain spare parts and maintenance services legally, which is why their fleets are routinely described as among the oldest in commercial service anywhere.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The 2015 nuclear agreement briefly changed that. In December 2016 Iran Air signed for 100 Airbus aircraft and 80 Boeings, with a further 20 ATR turboprops. Almost none of it arrived: one A321, two A330-200s and 13 ATR 72s were delivered before the United States withdrew from the agreement in May 2018 and the export licences were revoked. Iranian carriers went back to keeping A300s and Fokker 100s flying on parts bought through networks of exactly the kind OFAC spent September dismantling.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So the honest way to read Wednesday is not that a healthy airline industry is being switched off. It is that a long strangulation is being accelerated to its conclusion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The question is China<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Bessent's comments came a day after he met Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, ahead of a Trump meeting with Xi Jinping later this week. He said Chinese officials had been &ldquo;very engaged&rdquo; in the pressure campaign and described positive talks with Chinese financial authorities, including People's Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng, about sanctions compliance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That is the load-bearing detail. Secondary sanctions only work where the dollar matters, and Iran's most important remaining aviation partners are in places where Washington's leverage is weakest. Mahan Air has flown to Chinese airports for years. Whether a Chinese fuel supplier fears OFAC more than it values the business will determine whether Wednesday is a genuine worldwide shutdown or a shutdown of everything except the routes that were keeping the airline alive anyway.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>We will know by Thursday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQopbio4mPU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:-14px 0 24px;font-style:italic\">News coverage of the Treasury Secretary\u2019s warning that Iranian airlines will be shut out worldwide from 23 September.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:26px\">Sources: the US Department of the Treasury, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, FinCEN, CNBC, Al Jazeera, AFP, Reuters.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Are Iranian airlines being grounded worldwide?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on 21 September 2026 that from 23 September all Iranian airlines would be shut down around the world. The mechanism is secondary sanctions on the foreign companies that service them, rather than a direct ban on the airlines themselves.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How can the United States ground an airline in another country?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">By threatening the suppliers. Bessent warned that any company providing an Iranian aircraft with fuel, landing services or ticket sales risks being cut off from the US dollar system. For most aviation service providers, losing dollar access is commercially fatal, so they stop.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which Iranian airlines are under US sanctions?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On 8 September 2026 OFAC designated 27 Iranian airlines under Executive Order 13902, including Iran Aseman, Qeshm Air, Zagros, Taban, Saha, Kish, Ata and Iran Air Tour. Mahan Air was already designated in October 2011 for supporting the IRGC Quds Force.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is Operation Economic Outcast?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">It is the US Treasury campaign announced on 24 August 2026, internally called Economic D-Day, aimed at severing the remaining economic lifelines of the Iranian government. It issued determinations against critical Iranian economic sectors including aviation, which the September airline designations then built on.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Does this affect non-Iranian airlines flying to Iran?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. OFAC suspended three Iran-related aviation authorisations, including permissions for overflights and for non-US airlines to operate US-origin or US-controlled commercial aircraft into Iran. Since most widebody airliners contain American technology, that covers a great deal. Safety-related requests are considered case by case.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why are Iranian airline fleets so old?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Decades of sanctions have made it very difficult for Iranian carriers to buy new aircraft or obtain spare parts and maintenance legally. Iran Air ordered 100 Airbus and 80 Boeing aircraft after the 2015 nuclear deal, but only one A321, two A330-200s and 13 ATR 72s arrived before the licences were revoked in 2018.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How did Mahan Air obtain Boeing 777s under sanctions?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The US Treasury says Mahan Air received at least three Boeing 777s in summer 2026, routed through the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Each came from a retired fleet and passed through a UAE intermediary where it received a temporary registration, a route Treasury says mirrored earlier evasion schemes.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Are Iranian airlines being grounded worldwide?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on 21 September 2026 that from 23 September all Iranian airlines would be shut down around the world. The mechanism is secondary sanctions on the foreign companies that service them, rather than a direct ban on the airlines themselves.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How can the United States ground an airline in another country?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"By threatening the suppliers. 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