Iran Aseman Airlines (EP, Tehran Mehrabad) is still in talks with Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (Nagoya Chubu) over a possible M90 order despite this week's order for up to sixty B737 MAX placed with Boeing. Last year, Iran's Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan indicated negotiations with the Japanese manufacturer had focussed on the purchase of twenty-five jets.
"Having contracts with Boeing (BOE, Washington National) or any other aircraft maker doesn't mean that we have given up negotiations for purchasing MRJ," an Iran Aseman spokesman Amir Reza Mostafavi told Kyodo News during this week's B737 MAX MOU signing ceremony.
Aside from the MRJ-90, Iran Aseman has also been linked to talks with Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (Zhukovsky) concerning an unspecified number of SSJ 100/95s. Their purchase, according to the secretary of the Association of Iranian Airlines Maqsoud As’adi Samani, would be contingent on the Iran Civil Aviation Organization (CAO.IRI) granting the aircraft a type certificate. US Department of the Treasury export licenses, secured through its OFAC unit, would also have to be obtained, he was quoted by the Mehr News Agency.
Russia's Tass news agency last month quoted the country's Energy Minister, Alexander Novak, as stating that an unspecified Iran carrier has now placed an order for twelve SuperJets despite an initial plan to sell them thirty.
With the partial lifting of international sanctions in early 2016, Iran's national carrier IranAir (IR, Tehran Mehrabad) has placed orders with Airbus, ATR - Avions de Transport Régional (still pending), and Boeing for over 200 hundred new aircraft encompassing narrow- and wide-body, jet and turboprop aircraft.
