29 Mar 2024
Saturday 28 October 2017 - 15:49
Story Code : 281085

Historic Boeing-IranAir deal at risk amid claims of IRGC use

Al-Monitor |: US President Donald Trumps newIran strategy, including his Oct. 13 refusal to certify that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meets congressional requirements, will push a contract for 80 passenger jets signed between Boeing and IranAir into uncertainty, despite the confidence both companies have been trying to show.


Trump has specifically referred to the $16 billion order by the Iranian flag carrier, saying he has not made up his mind about the future of the contract. They were going to buy Boeings. I dont know whats going to happen with the deal, he said in aninterview Oct. 22, referring to Iran. Meanwhile, there have been reports going so far as to say that the US administration is likely to nix the aircraft order. One report published Oct. 23 by TheWashington Free Beaconquotes US officials and those in Congress as saying the deal is endangered amid concern that the jets will be used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the United States accuses of promoting terrorism.

State-owned IranAir negotiated the massive order after Iran and six world powers concluded in 2015 an accord to impose restrictions on the Iranian nuclear program. In exchange, Iran was granted relief from sanctions that had kept itsaviation industryisolated for decades. Indeed, sales of aircraft to Iran is specifically part of theletter of the JCPOA. Now, the historic aircraft agreement is atrisk of falling apart amid Trumps refusal to certify Irans compliance with the JCPOA. Trump has given the US Congress two months to decide whether to reimpose sanctions lifted under the nuclear deal.

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