US issues sanctions over efforts to supply Iran with portable air-defence weapons

“US issues sanctions over efforts to supply Iran with portable air-defence weapons”

The US has imposed sanctions on two men and a company accused of helping Iran procure man-portable air-defence systems ( Manpads ), the State Department has announced. The State Department said on Thursday that the three targets had been involved in attempts to assist in the acquisition of the shoulder-fired weapons, which are capable of downing helicopters and some types of fighter jet. The sanctioned people are Mohammed Ali Tolibov, chief executive of the Belarus arms intermediary Armoury…