Mystery solved? US-registered plane in Iran owned by Ghana firm

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Laura Rozen

The mystery of a US-registered plane spotted at a Tehran airport this week and reported on by the New York Times has apparently been solved.

The US-registered Bombardier corporate jet, carrying the registration number N604EP, is owned and operated by a Ghana-based engineering firm, an aviation expert said Friday. The visitors it bought to Iran last week were senior Ghanaian officials, an Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman said Friday.

The plane was chartered by Ghanaian officials, no American was on board, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told Iranian media Friday, journalist Mojtaba Mousavi and Shargh newspaper reported.

Tyler Bowron, an aviation expert at Cerretanni Aviation group in Boulder, Colorado, told Al-Monitor that the company that in fact owns and operates the plane is called Engineers and Planners, based in Accra, Ghana.

“Saudi Action Puts Muslim Brotherhood In Kuwait On Spot”

By gmbwatch

The Al-Monitor news portal has posted an article by journalist Elizabeth Dickson titled “Saudi action puts Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait on spot “ which looks at the implications for Kuwait of recent actions by Saudi Arabia directed against the Muslim Brotherhood. The article begins:

Kuwait

March 10, 2014 On March 11, a little-noticed lawsuit will resume in the Kuwaiti courts to disband the Muslim Brotherhood’s local charity arm, the Social Reform Society. Al Eslah, as it is known, is accused of mixing aid with politics — at home as well as in projects abroad, such as in Egypt. The case itself is unlikely to achieve its objective and will likely linger in the courts for months. But it is a telling example of the increasingly tense debate in Gulf states over the Muslim Brotherhood’s place in politics.