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By bne correspondent in Tehran & Beunos Aires Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the United States’ ‘unjust seizure’ of the Venezuelan plane is illegal and violates the basic principles of the UN Charter and International law, ISNA reported on February 13. The US Department of Justice on February 11 forfeited an American-built Boeing 747 cargo plane owned by a Venezuelan state-owned company on the ground that it was sold by Iran’s Mahan Air in violation of US export control laws. The 38-year-old aircraft was detained in Argentina for 18 months before Buenos Aires finally su…

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