Moram priznati da je lijepo, donekle i uzbudljivo gledati optimizam i integraciju zemlje u svjetske tokove nakon skidanja sankcija. Konačno će 80 milijuna ljudi imati šansu prodisati punim plućima. Opet se stvar vraća na to koliko su sankcije i izolacija nehumane i nedjelotvorne. Ne znam da su bilo kada rezultirale u bilo čemu osim patnje običnog naroda, i još jačeg održavanja režima na vlasti.

Sankcije su ipak skinute jer je Obama kreirao svoj "legacy", uz ogromne pritiske u SAD i od svoje stranke, republikanaca i naravski "saveznika" poput SA. Od ovoga SAD neće imati skoro nikakve ekonomske koristi, jer će sve važne poslove u Iranu dobiti Rusi, Europljani i Kinezi.

Iran Air to buy 118 Airbus jets

By Peggy Hollinger in London and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran

Iran Air on Thursday agreed to buy 118 aircraft from Airbus, including 12 A380s, marking the country’s return to the global aviation market and breathing new life into the European group’s troubled superjumbo jet programme.

The agreement, signed in the presence of presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran and François Hollande of France at the Elysée Palace, would be worth $25bn at list prices and is believed to be the biggest aircraft order by Iran since the revolution in 1979. Tehran is paying substantially below the catalogue price, given the scale of the order.

The deal, which will also see Airbus supporting the development of national air-traffic control services, airport operations and aircraft maintenance, is one of the first tangible results for most Iranian people of the nuclear agreement struck with world powers last year and which resulted in the lifting of international sanctions 12 days ago.

Air disasters, often blamed on the outdated equipment and a lack of spare parts due to sanctions, have cost about 1,200 Iranian lives since 1980. “It is such a great news. Thank God for that,” said Mastaneh, a 40-year-old English teacher in Tehran.

For Airbus the sale of 12 new A380s is a significant milestone in securing the future of a programme whose survival was called into question just 12 months ago by the group’s own finance director.

The world’s largest passenger jet has not won a new customer in almost three years, while its biggest user — Emirates — is pushing for a new, more efficient version of the aircraft, which was designed in the 1980s. Investors have questioned whether Airbus can recover the more than €10bn spent on development, although it has pledged to break even on current running costs.

Fabrice Brégier, chief executive of Airbus commercial aircraft, told the Financial Times that the deal agreed with Iran Air was the beginning of a longer relationship.
Further purchases, possibly of second-hand jets, could be agreed at a later date. As part of the agreement, Airbus would help with the training of pilots, maintenance of new aircraft and preparing Iranian airports for the arrival of the superjumbos.

“This is trust we are building,” Mr Brégier said. “It is a big order but it is only a first.”

The A380s would start to be delivered in 2019. Assuming the appropriate export licences could be secured quickly, Mr Brégier said he expected to deliver as many as 10 short-haul and other long-haul aircraft by the end of this year. “The demand is huge,” he said.

Farhad Parvaresh, Iran Air chairman, said the purchase marked “the start of re-establishing our civil aviation sector as the envy of the region”.

Iran Air is buying 45 A320 single-aisle aircraft, of both the current and newest re-engined generation; 45 A330 wide-bodies; 16 of its newest A350 twin-aisle aircraft; and the 12 A380s. Although the deal signed on Thursday is not yet a binding agreement, Mr Brégier expected the sale to be finalised in the next month or two.

Iran is expected to secure international financing for the purchase through sale and leaseback of the aircraft. Mr Brégier said he expected export credit agencies from France, Germany and the UK to help with that part of the deal. Airbus itself might offer some temporary financing for a few aircraft while the new funding is put in place.

Iran has estimated that it needs 500 new aircraft to renew the country’s ageing fleet. Iran’s minister of transportation, Abbas Akhoundi, said last week that only 150 out of Iran’s 250 planes were operational.

Iranian ministers have spoken of their ambitions to transform Tehran into an aviation hub but this would require significant improvements in safety and air-traffic control. Airbus would be ready to help Iran in these areas as well, said Mr Brégier.

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