“Airbus” unilaterally canceled the contract to ship 100 airplanes to the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Company (Iran Air).
According to native media, Hossam Gurban Ali, General Manager of Public Relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran Airlines, introduced on December 26 that the contract that Airbus had suspended with the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, “now they’ve formally despatched a letter that the contract has been canceled.”
About the cancellation of this contract by Airbus, Hossam Gurban Ali mentioned: “The contract between Iran Air and Airbus for the import of 100 airplanes was signed after the JCPOA, however no cash was paid for it and we had solely registered an order.”
This public relations supervisor mentioned concerning the phrases of the bilateral contract: “This concern was included within the textual content of the contract that any group can unilaterally cancel the contract, and now Airbus has formally canceled this contract.” He additionally talked about that “this registration of the order was legitimate solely when the settlement was signed”.
Previously, the “Flight Global” database reported on the twenty fifth of December that the brand new Airbus statistics printed on the finish of 2023 present that every one the remaining 97 plane assigned to Iran Air have been faraway from the gross sales record of this European plane producer. have turned.
This order was made by the Islamic Republic of Iran Airlines in 2014 after the discount of sanctions as a part of the political settlement on the Iranian authorities’s nuclear vitality program.
Iran Air ordered 98 jets, together with 16 (E-350) and (E-330) and eight (E-320).
While two new planes (E-330) and one (E-321) had been delivered to the Tehran-based airline, the remaining 97 plane remained on the backlog after the resurgence of political tensions between the US and Iranian governments in 2016. Airbus remained.
The completion of the Airbus settlement was conditional on receiving an export license from the US authorities, as a result of US-made elements are used within the development of Airbus plane.
About eight years in the past, following the implementation of the JCPOA, the Department of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury Department (OFEC) offered permission for the conclusion of a contract between Iran and a number of other giant plane manufacturing firms. According to this chance, Iran signed a contract for the acquisition of 200 airplanes, which was canceled with the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA.
Earlier, in an unique dialog with Voice of America, US Deputy Special Representative for Iran Affairs Abram Peele mentioned concerning the continuation of sanctions and the nuclear settlement and the rise in Iranian regime’s tension-provoking habits: “Our coverage strategy in 2024 with all these destabilizing actions It confronts.”
In this interview, he mentioned about the potential of discovering a brand new resolution for the nuclear settlement: “We are presently removed from any such interplay. And Iran has not proven any signal of being critical in responding to our issues and considerations, and the considerations of the worldwide neighborhood, about advancing the nuclear program.
While emphasizing the US authorities’s dedication to stop Iran from buying a nuclear weapon, the deputy US particular consultant for Iran mentioned: “We nonetheless assume that diplomacy is one of the simplest ways to realize a long-term, secure and efficient resolution to this drawback.”