AFP
Baghdad: Iraq has grounded and inspected a third Iranian aircraft bound for Syria in as many days, but found only humanitarian goods, a senior official said on Thursday.
The string of searches, the latest of which came Wednesday night, follow warnings by Baghdad last month that it would step up such inspections.
In March, US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Iraq of turning a blind eye to Iranian flights which Washington says carry military equipment for the Damascus regime.
Nasser Bandar, the head of Iraq’s civil aviation authority, said Iraqi aviation officials had on Wednesday evening ordered a Mahan Air cargo plane headed for Damascus to land in Baghdad.
