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Iran needs to upgrade its ageing passenger fleet and is seeking
to avert U.S. sanctions on Tehran.
The U.S. Treasury has revoked licences for Boeing Co <BA.N> and
Airbus <AIR.PA> to sell passenger jets to Iran after President
Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran
nuclear agreement in May and reimposed sanctions.
Most modern commercial planes have more than 10 percent in U.S.
parts, the threshold for needing U.S. Treasury approval.
But Russian officials have been reported as saying Sukhoi is
working on reducing the number of U.S. parts in the hopes of
winning an Iranian order for up to 100 aircraft.
"If the Iranian airlines want to use this aircraft (Superjet 100
) and the seller is willing to sell it to Iran, the Civil
Aviation Organization is ready to issue its final comment on
this aircraft," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Ali
Abedzadeh, head of the Civil Aviation Organization, as saying.
"But this aircraft has adhered to world standards and is flying
currently, therefore there is no reason for us to reject it,"
Abedzadeh told Fars.
Flag-carrier IranAir had ordered 200 passenger aircraft - 100
from Airbus, 80 from Boeing and 20 from Franco-Italian turboprop
maker ATR <LDOF.MI> before U.S. licences were revoked.
"The airlines have proposals for plane purchases and we are
trying to devise regulations that will ease their aircraft
imports. Considering Iran's very large market, we need 500
planes now," Abedzadeh was quoted as saying by the semi-official
Tasnim news agency.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Alexander Smith)
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