Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 31
By Farhad Daneshvar – Trend:
Iranian Transport Minister Abbas Akhoundi has said that the country will receive two new Airbus aircraft over the “next four weeks”.
Speaking to journalists in Tehran, the minister said that the new airplanes will “gradually” join the country’s aviation fleet over the next four weeks, Tasnim news agency reported.
Iran’s first brand-new A321 Airbus aircraft landed in Tehran on Jan. 12 after almost three decades of embargo on the country’s aviation system.
Under a contract signed last year during President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to France following the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action (JCPOA/nuclear deal) Iran put orders for 100 aircraft with Airbus aimed at renewing the country’s aging aviation system.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault chairing a high-ranking political and economic delegation is in Tehran to discuss expansion of bilateral ties.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with his French counterpart on Jan. 31 said the level of trade turnover between
the two countries surged by 300 percent following the implementation of the nuclear deal (January 2016) reaching 1.7 billion euros.
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