Originally Posted by stranger12
it is due to us sanctions preventing Iran from buying planes.
they have no choice apart from either resorting to ukranine and russian planes which have crashed so many times in the past few years or simply stop all iranian flights which simply is not an option.
They even struggle to get parts and sometimes get uncertified parts !!
Care to explain the A300, A310s, A320s and A340s in Iran then?
The sanctions have not stopped them buying used "western" jets through brokers in countries that do not fall under US or European jurisdiction and are free to trade with Iran.
And yes, there are plenty of US manufactured components on Airbus models, so the sanctions would include them.
Iranian airlines operating old or sub par Russian or Ukranian metal are doing so because it's cheap. Much like a lot of African nations have airline fleets made up of older Boeing jets (737-200, DC-9, etc)