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U.S. Scuppers Aircraft Deliveries to Iran as Euro Appeal Fails
Airbus and ATR cannot resume deliveries of new airliners to Iran after the U.S. blocked an appeal to ease sanctions against the country.

The U.S. government has rejected an appeal by the European Union (EU) to allow some exemptions to economic sanctions against Iran that the Trump Administration imposed in May when it unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme. The decision, confirmed in a letter signed by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, blocks efforts by European airframers ATR and Airbus to deliver new airliners ordered by Iran Air after earlier sanctions were lifted.