U.S. Sanctions Dozens of Iranian Airlines as Diplomatic Pressure Mounts

In the long and unresolved tension between Washington and Tehran, the United States has once again reached for the instrument of economic pressure, sanctioning dozens of Iranian airlines in an effort to bring Iran to the negotiating table over an ongoing war. The Treasury Department's move targets a sector uniquely exposed to international disruption — aviation depends on global supply chains that American sanctions can sever. It is a strategy built on the belief that sustained pain, carefully calibrated, can change a government's calculus without crossing into open warfare. Whether that belie