Are you familiar with this incident, where a Canadian owned, registered and operated aircraft lost its rudder in flight after taking off from Cuba and returned to Cuba?
Air Transat Flight 961
It was an Airbus A310, that was no longer in production. It needed a new rudder, and because no one knew the stress the vertical stabilizer had suffered when the rudder sheared off, a new vertical stabilizer as well. Airbus had some A310s aircraft parked in a desert in the US. When they tried to take take parts on those aircraft, to ship to Cuba to repair the Canadian Aircraft, the US prevented it, claiming this fell under the embargo the US imposed on Cuba. The aircraft was stuck in Cuba for months while Airbus found a solution that did not involve any parts located in the US. The Cubans had no role in the problems that were encountered to fix the aircraft. It all came from Washington.
Those here that think that the flak, if any is encountered in this case, will come from the Iranians, think again. I hope that cool heads will prevail.
Edit: This article, from 2 days ago, seems to confirm my statement:
https://www.fin24.com/Companies/Trav...rline-20190104