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that are made with a significant level of US components, such as Airbus jets. “These contracts are not cancelled; they are in our portfolio. However, their implementation will be possible only after the lifting of sanctions against Iran by the United States, or if Washington will give separate special permission to supply the aircraft, ” said Dubon.
Iran Air in 2016 signed an agreement with Airbus for the supply of 118 aircraft. It asked for 73 wide-body aircraft and 45 narrow-body planes. The contract included 21 aircraft of the A320ceo family and 24 of the A320neo family.
Also, Airbus received an order for 12 of its largest airliner, the A380, from IranAir.
According to data for the beginning of 2019, IranAir’s fleet features two A310s, 12 A300s, 4 Boeing 747s, 6 A320s and 16 Fokker 100s . Some of these jets are over 40 years old and are only in partial operation due to long-lasting sanctions on the country restricting routes.
Iran appointed a former airforce commander who is on a Washington blacklist as the new chief executive of IranAir on May 6.
Turaj Dehghani Zanganeh replaced Farzaneh Sharafbafi, the first Iranian woman with a PhD in aerospace and the first woman to run the airline. She was at the helm of the airline for two years.
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Iran’s mobile telecom operators on June 23 blocked the Telegram and WhatsApp messaging services’ SMS and phone-call authorisation functions, London-based Manoto TV reported.
Iranian users have reportedly asked Telegram developers to allow authorisations via email as an email. The developers themselves were yet to comment on the situation, but the clampdown will effectively block all new installations and 2-step verifications, often used in Iran, to access the secure messaging platform.
Social media channels are advising users not to log out of their accounts—Telegram provides the option of obtaining an authorisation code on another device when an active session is running.
Telegram's active user base in Iran stands at approximately 40mn people. In Russia, where the founders of the service hail from, only around 10mn people are regular users of the app.
In April 2018, the Iranian government attempted to block the app ; however, third-party apps plugging into the system have kept many users online without the need for a virtual private network (VPN).
Iranian users of messaging services remain unconvinced by local messaging apps, fearing they are the work of their country’s intelligence organisations. Alternative local application Soroush has been ridiculed and slammed by Iranians as insecure and liable to hacking by government agencies. There have been claims it was developed by Iranian intelligence operatives.
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