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Airbus Group SE suffered a blow to its already troubled A380 program when Iran, which had previously suggested it would buy the double-decker planes, said it had dropped the model as part of a wider fleet upgrade.
Republican members of the US Congress are vowing to fight a $16.6 billion deal between Boeing and Iran after the air giant announced Sunday it had agreed to sell 80 aircraft to Iran Air.
Head of Iran’s National Space Center Manouchehr Manteqi said the French plane manufacturer Airbus plans to cooperate with the Islamic Republic in joint projects to produce aircraft parts in the near future.
Germany has reportedly agreed to provide Iran with a €1.2 billion ($1.27 billion) credit line to help finance a key rail project in what is seen as the biggest foreign financing the country has been able to secure after the removal of sanctions.
The 8th edition of Iran Air Show started work on November 16 in the Persian Gulf Island of Kish and will display the latest capabilities of aviation and aerospace industries until November 19.
Iran says it is looking into the possibility of using the facilities of German financial institutions to fund its purchases of planes from aviation giants such as Airbus and Boeing.
Iran has the capacity for local production of train cars, Deputy Industry Minister Mojtaba Khosrotaj told Tasnim on Saturday, when asked about the latest...
Joe Sutter, the recently-deceased developer of the famous Boeing 747 airplane, had penned a letter to Iran Air officials, praising the country’s flight engineers and commending Iran’s beauty.
Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhondi announced that the first series of Airbus passenger planes will join the country’s civil aviation fleet by the end of Autumn.
Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) has permitted the country’s airlines to dispatch empty flights to Turkey for bringing back Iranian travellers stranded there after an attempted military coup caused turmoil in the neighbouring country, an official announced.
An Iranian official dismissed the rumours of secret delivery of newly-purchased planes to the country, stressing that the deal with Airbus is in final stages and the new planes will arrive in Iran on autumn.
The Fourth Iran International Maritime Industries Exhibition (Iran-IMEX 2016) will be held in Tehran from September 24-26, concurrent with World Maritime Day.
The Managing Director of the Ports and Maritime Organization said that the capacity of Chabahar port will increase from 2 million tons to 8 million tons after an investment of $235m from Indian firms.
The largest automaker in the Middle East, Iran Khodro, and its old partner, France's Peugeot-Citroen (PSA), have announced the launch of a joint auto company in the Iranian capital Tehran.