SHANA -- A member of the Iranian parliament said that US embargoes on Irans oil industry could never halt the sectors progress given the capabilities of Iranian experts in the field. Speaking to Shana, Mohammad Reza Rezaei Kouchi, who presides over the parliaments Civil Committee, said, Despite the fact that sanctions do have their impact, we have ...

Tasnim The chairman of the Iranian parliaments Civil Commission rejected claims that some crew members of the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi that sank in the East China Sea in January 2018 are alive and have been taken as hostages, saying that no crew has survived the incident. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Mohammad Reza Rezaei Kouchi deplored ...

Radio Farda - Members of a "US military group" who visited Iran were "presumably" spies, the chairman of the Public Works Commission of Iran's parliament has said. The group entered Iran to negotiate about obtaining OFAC permits for selling planes to Iran, Mohammad-Reza Rezaei Kouchi asserted, without mentioning any date. OFAC, the Office of ...

MNA Iran will file a lawsuit against the Franco-Italian turboprop planemaker ATR over breaking its contract with Tehran under US sanctions, head of the Iranian parliament's Civil Commission said Wednesday. IranAir signed a contract worth over $400 million with the Franco-Italian aircraft manufacturer in 2017 for the delivery of 20 ATR 72-600s. ...

IRNA Boeing cancelled its agreement with Iran and lost $20b, which is hard to compensate, said an Iranian parliamentarian on Sunday. 'Iran tried to let Boeing in, but the US administration ordered it to withdraw from the deal with Iran,' said Mohammad-Reza Rezaee-Koochi. Iran had ordered 80 planes, so it was a good market for the plane manufacturer,...

IRNA The black box of the crashed Iranian ATR plane will be sent to France on Thursday, Head of Iran parliament development commission said. 'Due to lack of required equipment for deciphering the black box in Iran, it will be sent to France,' Mohammad Reza Rezaee Kouchi told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Tuesday. Information of ...