Boeing: We will not deliver aircraft to Iran
A Boeing spokesman said the company will not deliver any aircraft to Iran due to US sanctions. Boeing had signed a contract with Iran to deliver 80 passenger planes to the country.
A spokesman for the Boeing aircraft manufacturer announced on Wednesday (June 6) that it is in compliance with US sanctions and no longer has the necessary license to sell aircraft to Iran.
A Boeing spokesperson added that the company has never delivered any aircraft to Iran and will not deliver any aircraft to Iran as it no longer has a license to sell aircraft to the country.
The aircraft purchase agreement was signed in the fall of 2016 between Iran Air (Homa) and Boeing. According to the agreement, Boeing was to deliver 80 passenger aircraft worth about $16 billion to Iran over a period of 10 years.
Iran was supposed to receive six of these aircraft in 2017, but this agreement did not materialize. The Boeing contract with Iran was signed with the approval of the then US government. After signing the contract with Boeing, the Minister of Roads and Urban Development said that Iran's contract with Boeing is a commercial contract and cannot be canceled by the US President's decree.
Before signing the deal with Boeing, Iran had also signed a deal with French aircraft manufacturer Airbus to buy 118 planes worth more than $10 billion. Iran has already received several of these planes and is scheduled to receive the remaining 118 by 2024.
With the US withdrawal from the JCPOA and the return of its sanctions against Iran, the delivery of Airbus to Iran has also been shrouded in uncertainty, because some of Airbus' important parts are produced in the US, and if the US government does not want it, Airbus will not have a license to sell to Iran.
The contract with Airbus and Boeing was signed after the signing of the nuclear agreement in July 2015 and its implementation began in early 2016. Following the announcement of the US withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that with Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the JCPOA, Boeing and Airbus' contracts with Iran would also be canceled.
Source: DW
