TEHRAN, Sep. 21 (MNA) � An official at Civil Aviation Organization of Iran (CAOI) clarified that a 737 jet has been rented and not purchased by Iranian Naft Airlines.

Reza Jafarzadeh, the Head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization public relations office, rejected the earlier news�on purchase of Boeing 737 by Naft Airlines underling that the aircraft has only been�leased out to Iran.

Previously, Managing Director of Iranian Naft Airlines Nurollah Rezai Niyaraki was quoted as saying that �one of the four Boeing 737 single-aisle jetliners bought from the US was delivered to Naft Airlines on Sunday.�

However, purchase of Boeing aero planes by Iran is still faced by restrictions imposed by the US Treasury�s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Iran Air and America's Boeing inked an MoU in June over sales�of 80 aircraft and lease of�29 more in a potential deal worth about $25 billion while the deal faced�opposition in US Congress�raising doubts about deliveries of the jets.

By Mehr News Agency