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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 09:49 AM Sep 2016

Boeing receives US license to sell planes to Iran

Source: AFP

Boeing said Wednesday it obtained a US government license to complete a sale of planes to Iran Air, moving closer to the first such deal since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The aerospace group said it remained in talks with Iran Air on a final sales agreement after the two sides reached a preliminary deal in June. The deal is valued at as much as $25 billion.

"Any final sales agreement would have to adhere to the license we've been issued," said Boeing spokesman Mark Sklar.

The June memorandum of understanding covered the sale of 80 planes to Iran Air. Boeing will also lease 29 other planes to Iranian national carrier under the deal.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeing-says-received-us-license-sell-planes-iran-191734887.html

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Boeing receives US license to sell planes to Iran (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2016 OP
Why? Iran will use planes as weapons again, like they did on 9-11... Mika Sep 2016 #1
... geardaddy Sep 2016 #2
 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
1. Why? Iran will use planes as weapons again, like they did on 9-11...
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 10:57 AM
Sep 2016

... and Obama will be missing from the White House like on 9-11.
(just in case ... )

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