Some international airports have refused to offer fuel to Iran's passenger planes after U.S. unilateral sanctions against Tehran, an Iranian official says.

""Following the ratification of the U.S. unilateral sanctions against Iran, airports in Britain, Germany, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have declined to offer fuel to Iranian passenger planes flying through their airspace since Thursday,"" the Secretary of Iran's Airlines Union Mehdi Aliyari said on Monday.
Aliyari went on to say that air transportation is an international activity and that all sanctions against Iran contradict the international aviation rules and human rights, ISNA reported.
Aliyari said the U.S. unilateral sanctions are beyond the UN Security Council resolution approved in June, adding that given its illegality, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) should investigate the matter.
Following his remarks, Germany and the UAE reportedly denied they had stopped supplying Iranian planes with fuel.
Germany's Transport Ministry was quoted by Reuters as saying that the refueling of Iranian planes was not banned under European Union or United Nations sanctions and that a future ban of this order was not foreseeable.
“There is no ban,” a spokesman for the ministry said, adding that he could not comment on whether any individual providers were refusing to fuel Iranian aircraft.
A spokeswoman for the Abu Dhabi Airports Co (ADAC) also said that ADAC continues to supply Iranian passenger flights with jet fuel.
""We have contracts with Iranian passenger flights and continue to allow refueling,"" Reuters quoted her as saying.
On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law new unilateral sanctions against Tehran aimed at preventing Iran's access to imports of refined oil products.
The bill will deny access to U.S. markets companies that supply Iran with refined petroleum products.
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