Reprisals feared for UK-German-UAE-Kuwait refusal to refuel Iranian jets

"he new US sanctions covering the sale to Iran of refined oil products including gasoline and jet oil, which President Barak Obama signed into law Friday, July 2, have gone into action, DEBKAfile's Iranian and military sources report. Monday, July 5, Mehdi Aliyari, secretary of Iranian Airlines Union, said airports in Britain, Germany, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates had refused to refuel Iranian passenger planes. He said the cutoff affected the national carrier Iran Air and the biggest Iranian private airline Mahan Air, both of which operate several flights to Europe. They are grounded in the middle of the summer holiday rush to and from Iran forcing holiday-makers to resort to the few foreign airlines putting into Tehran for their overseas flights."