Forbes | Dominic Dudley: Iran is due to receive three Airbus planes in the very near future, according to the countrys transport minister Mohammad Eslami, as quoted in the local press. The development is a surprise, given the tightly restrictive U.S. sanctions in place on Iran, which led to the collapse of several lucrative aircraft orders in late ...

MNA Iranian road minister informed on Sunday that three new Airbus planes will be added to the country's air fleet. Mohammad Eslami said that despite sanctions, Iran is capable of supplying plane parts and will receive the new Airbus planes in near future, too. As reported on Sunday, an Iranian airline is also going to lease three Brazilian-...

Reuters - Iran called on the European Union on Monday to press U.S. authorities to allow delivery of Airbus passenger aircraft purchased by Tehran, Irans student news agency ISNA reported. To upgrade its ageing fleet, Iran Air ordered 200 passenger aircraft - 100 from Airbus, 80 from Boeing and 20 from Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR - after ...

Tasnim CEO of Iran Air Farzaneh Sharafbafi said the countrys aviation experts have managed to conduct the C-check of the first airliner purchased from Airbus after the coming into force of the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Relying on the power of domestic experts, we were recently able to conduct the ...

FNA - Iranian researchers at the University of Tehran found a method, using nano-coatings, to increase the efficiency of aircraft, and plan to test it in large scale in cooperation with the Airbus company. "We have increased nearly 30% the lift power and drag power factors in the laboratory stage which means that we have boosted efficiency of planes ...

Tasnim Iran plans to take delivery of three more Airbus planes by the end of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018 March 20, 2019) in a major deal that it signed with the European aviation giant in December 2016, a lawmaker said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, the spokesman for the Iranian parliaments Civil Commission, Sodeif Badri, said ...

The Montly Fool | Adam Levine-Weinberg: It didn't come as much of a shock last week when President Donald Trump pulled the plug on a 2015 agreement that eased economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on Iran's nuclear enrichment program. After all, Trump had long characterized the agreement as a "bad deal". The reimposition of U.S. sanctions ...

Reuters- Iran expects to hear from Airbus (AIR.PA) in the coming days about the fate of an order for 100 planes that looks to have been wrecked by the United States decision to reinstate sanctions on the Islamic Republic. The deal, potentially worth about $18-20 billion at list prices, was agreed in December 2016. But so far only three planes have ...

Independent- Airplane manufacturersBoeingandAirbuswill lose out on a $39bn deal due to new sanctions imposed as a result of US PresidentDonald Trumps the US would not participate in theIran nuclear agreement. Licenses for the companies to sell passenger jets to Iran are going to be revoked, US Treasury SecretarySteve Mnuchinsaid. Easing sanctions ...

Press TV - The US Treasury says licenses held by aerospace giants Boeing and Airbus to sell passenger jets to Iranwill be revoked after Washington announced its withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. "The Boeing and (Airbus) licenses will be revoked," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchinsaid on Tuesday. "Under the original deal there were waivers ...

IRAN Daily - Iran will receive 14 new passenger aircraft this year based on agreements signed with Airbus, Boeing and ATR plane-makers, said a former deputy roads and urban development minister. Asghar Fakhrieh-Kashan further said on Wednesday that Iran will receive eight turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft from the Franco-Italian company plus three planes ...

MNA Member of Parliament Plan and Budget Commission Mehrdad Lahouti said, to renovate and modernize aging air fleet, Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akoundi has paved suitable ways for signing and sealing three contracts in the field of purchasing a number of 200 equipped planes. Speaking on Wednesday in an interview with MNA correspondent,...

Forbes | Dominic Dudley:A Russian-built Sukhoi Superjet 100 landed at Tehran's Mehrabad International airport on Feb. 12 with a team of engineers on board, as part of a renewed attempt by the company to find customers in Iran for its passenger jet. It could prove to be a fruitful venture for the firm, given the difficulty Iranian airlines have had ...

MNA At the first meeting of the Iran-France Joint Transport Working Group, the two sides reviewed previous contracts for the purchase of Airbus and ATR. According to Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, Iran and France held their first meeting of their joint transportation working group today January 15. The meeting was jointly chaired by ...

Reuters - The sales chief of European planemaker Airbus predicted Iran would take delivery of dozens of European jets it has ordered under a nuclear sanctions deal with major powers, but warned the transactions could take longer to complete than planned. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has strongly criticized the 2015 deal to lift a raft of sanctions ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Enemies angry about Iranian nations greatness, success, countrys progress President Rouhani described cooperation and empathy among all branches in solving peoples problems essential and said: Our economic condition is better than worlds mean but this does not mean that all problems ...

MNA Deputy Roads Minister Fakhrieh Kashan said manufacturing companies have already funded a number of airplanes purchased by Irans flag-carrier airliner Iran Air in the post-JCPOA era. Deputy Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Road and Urban Development Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan reported on financing sources of aircraft added ...

Tasnim European aviation giant Airbus has voiced readiness to fund the countrys purchases of passenger planes, Head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) Ali Abedzadeh said. Airbus, the French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR, and American aviation giant Boeing have already approached Iran to fund the purchases, Abedzadeh said on Sunday....

MNA Iran Air (HOMA) CEO Farzaneh Sharafbafi said Frances Airbus will undertake financing of aircraft purchases by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Sharafbafi, Chairwoman and CEO of Irans national carrier Iran Air (Homa), made the remarks on the sidelines of Iran Trans Expo in Tehran. The official highlighted that she was slated to attend a joint ...

Wall Street Journal- Felicia Schwartzand Ian Talley- The Trump administration is advancing a strategy that could derail efforts by Boeing Co. and Airbus SE to sell hundreds of jetliners to Iranian airlines, U.S. officials said. The two aerospace giants have lined up deals over the past 15 months that have been left in limbo as the White House reassessed ...