The United States imposed sanctions on the “Fly Baghdad” airline, its CEO, and 3 leaders and supporters of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades, accusing them of aiding… Iran's Revolutionary GuardsThis was denied by the company.

According to a statement by the US Treasury Department on Monday, Washington accused Fly Baghdad and its CEO, Bashir Abdul Kadhim Alwan Al-Shaibani, of providing assistance to…Quds Force Responsible for the external operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as well as “the groups loyal to it in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.”

For its part, Fly Baghdad denounced the American sanctions, stressing that they are not based on any material or moral evidence.

The company said in a statement that it “will resort to the legal method to demand material and moral compensation, as it is clear that the decision was based on misleading and unreal information that cannot stand up to the law.”

The sanctions also included 3 leaders and supporters of the Hezbollah Brigades – which the US Treasury described as one of the main factions of the Quds Force in Iraq – in addition to a company that Washington accused of transferring and laundering money for the Brigades.

The American statement referred to “the continuing threat posed by the Quds Force and its network to the Americans and the region,” through “a series of missile and drone attacks,” describing the matter as a sharp escalation against the Americans in Iraq and Syria in the wake of the attack launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) on Israel on October 7, in reference to Al-Aqsa flood.

Israel is waging war for the 108th day A devastating war on Gaza With broad political and military support from the United States, which supplies it with thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition via an air bridge.

The US Treasury Department said that Kataib Hezbollah and other Iraqi factions continuously published statements supporting Hamas and threatening to attack Americans.

The statement quoted Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson as saying, “Iran and its proxies have sought to exploit regional economies and use seemingly legal companies to finance and facilitate their attacks.”

The economic sanctions include freezing the assets of the company and the entities owned by it, wholly or partially, in the United States, and prohibiting it from carrying out commercial exchanges to and from the country.

In a separate statement, the US State Department said that the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and armed factions allied with Iran “pose a major threat to the Middle East region.”

Department spokesman Matthew Miller added, “The United States remains committed to identifying and taking action against individuals and groups who abuse their local economies and engage in illegal activities that support terrorist groups that destabilize the region.”