Xinhua - Iran will hold an international tender to find financers for its plane purchases from the aviation giants Airbus and Boeing, Press TV reported on Sunday. The national flag-carrier "Iran Air is preparing the tender documents so that they would be sent to all credible financers across the world," Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan, Iran's deputy minister ...

Iran says it expects an emerging deal to purchase planes from US aerospace giant Boeing to become the biggest civil trade agreement between the two countries after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Asghar Fakhriyeh Kashan, Irans deputy minister for roads and urban development, has been quoted by the media in Tehran as saying that serious talks are ...

Iran has announced that a major deal that it signed with Airbus in January to purchase 118 planes from the European aviation giant is still pending authorization from the United States. Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan has told AFP that the approval of the US is necessary for the deal because more than 10 percent of components ...

Tehran (AFP) - Iran expects to finalise within days a deal to buy up to 40 planes from ATR, the European manufacturer of turboprop aircraft, a deputy transport minister said Saturday. "We discussed the deals in Italy and France and ATR officials are expected in Tehran in the coming days to complete the agreement," Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan said. "There ...