No Iran deliveries scheduled for 2018: Boeing CEO
Boeing chairman, president and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said the company has no deliveries to Iranian carriers scheduled for 2018.
"Those have been deferred again in line with the US Government process"; he said
He added that "We're going to follow the US Government's lead".
Muilenburg said deliveries to Iran "have been deferred again in line with the US government process." He suggested that the company had other buyers for the planes, which had been slated for Iran's national passenger carrier, Iran Air.
In December 2016, the Chicago-based company reached an agreement to sell 80 planes to Iran Air. While the requisite licenses were issued under the Obama administration, the deal has been clouded since Donald Trump's inauguration.
Iran Air CEO Farzaneh Sharafbafi attended a meeting of the joint commission that monitors the JCPOA in March specifically to raise concerns about the stalled contract.
Russian media reported that Iran has signed a memorandum to purchase 40 Sukhoi Superjet-100 passenger planes and would receive the first version of the plane by 2022. To avoid needing permission from the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Russian company is reportedly reducing the proportion of US components in the plane to fewer than 10%.
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