WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is penalizing an Iranian commercial airline that it says is helping Iran’s feared special operations forces. The Treasury Department says Mahan Air provides financial, material and technological support to the Quds Force and to Hezbollah. A Treasury statement says the airline ferries personnel between Iran and Syria for military training and helps Iranian officers covertly travel abroad. The Quds Force is part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard military unit. The U.S. says a Quds member who is at large in Iran plotted to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s…
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