Reuters:
Mahan Air, a private Iranian airline accused by the West of transporting military equipment to Middle East war zones, on Monday launched a direct flight to Venezuela, as Tehran voices support for Caracas against a U.S. backed opposition.
Mehr news agency quoted the spokesman of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization Reza Jafarzadeh as saying that the route was launched in the early hours of Monday, and the plane will carry foreign ministry officials to Caracas.
Jafarzadeh said a delegation from Mahan Air was also travelling to Caracas to discuss maintaining regular flights between the two countries.
The non-stop Tehran-Caracas flight will take 16 hours.
Mahan Air, established in 1992 as Iran’s first private airline, has the country’s largest fleet of aircraft.
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With what though? with 747's out of business, you need a plane that can carry a lot of fuel (16 hours is really a long flight) . so this means a plane has to stop over somewhere in europe to refuel and since Iran and subsequently the airline is under sanction who is going to provide fuel for it? and finally who really wants to go from Iran to starving Venezuela now.
The distance is 7,300 miles which is about the same as LAX to Sydney. That's the limit of 747's. The flight path is over Africa.