“Economic sanctions against Iran make it difficult to maintain planes”
Published: 15 July, 2009, 17:48
TAGS: Accident, Middle East
It’s widely believed in Iran that UN-imposed sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program place restrictions on how aircraft can be updated, modified and repaired, says journalist Nick Davis-Jones.
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It's not about Russian or US types. It is believed that sanctions prevent Iran from buying new high-quality aircrafts. The one crashed today - like all those crashed in the recent years in Iran- was an old aircraft.
If Iran is able to run a nuclear program then it is able to maintain it's planes.