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The planes have been parked in Mashhad in northern Iran for the past several months, according to satellite imagery posted on a Twitter account called Aerospacetalk.
It is expected that the planes will presently be sent to be given IranAir livery before going operational within two months.
The delivery of the planes jars with comments lately made by Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami. He said I ran had become able to buy planes via “a special financial channel” and “very good ones” too. The last delivery of new planes to Iran was ATR’s dispatching of 13 turboprop regional airliners to the country b efore sanctions were reimposed by the US last August.
Germany has pulled the licence of Iran's second largest airline, Mahan Air. Berlin officials cited "security concerns" and activities the carrier was said to be involved in in conflict-torn Syria when they announced the withdrawal of the permit on January 21. The German Foreign Ministry has said Mahan maintains ties with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and lays on military transport flights between Iran and Syria.
The licence move stems from the latest of a series of disagreements between Iran and EU member nations , which, along with China and Russia, are supposed to more or less be on the same page in defending Iran’s economy from the reimposed heavy US sanctions.
The Federal Aviation Office (LBA) of Germany made the decision to ban Mahan from landing in Germany with immediate effect. Consultations on the matter took place with European allies and the US, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said. However, he said the decision to revoke the licence was not a result of US pressure, but was "based on considerations of our security needs".
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