Tehran (ecoideal) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire expressed hope that ATR aircraft manufacturer would get permission from the US to deliver eight regional planes to Iran before August 6, when sanctions against Tehran kick in.
“I am hopeful that the United States will give us permission to deliver these ATRs,” Maire told French broadcaster BFM TV.
“There were eight to be delivered before the 6th August,” he added, highlighting the significant share of the figure which represents for ATR such an order.
Deliveries of turboprop aircraft were interrupted in May following the withdrawal of US – which must approve any export of aircraft containing more than 10% US-made components – from the 2015 nuclear deal and the reimposing of the US sanctions regime against Tehran.
Nobody within ATR was available immediately to comment on the statements of Bruno the Mayor. He expressed his optimism for other sectors, without going into detail.
“I’ve been negotiating for weeks with my counterpart, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and I’m hopeful we’ll get on a number of topics that directly affect our SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and our jobs in US-owned territories,” he said.
“I am also fighting so that in the health sector, in the agri-food sector, which are now out of sanction, there may be funding channels that remain open,” said the French minister.
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Source: I S N A