Planemakers poised for Iranian buying spree if nuclear deal reached

Reuters ^ | Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:38pm EDT | Tim Hepher, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish

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Western planemakers look set to reap billions of dollars in deals with Iran, if a deal is done on its nuclear program to allow one of the world’s most promising aviation markets to come out of quarantine.

Iran and six world powers were struggling on Friday to remove the last obstacles to an historic deal in Vienna that could resolve a more than 12-year dispute over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, extending talks through the weekend.

For Tehran, the prospect of sweeping economic sanctions and a long-standing U.S. trade embargo being lifted represents a chance to renew a fleet whose average age of 23 years is almost twice the international average, and to do so at affordable prices, after years of paying over the odds on the black market.

For Airbus, Boeing and other manufacturers, that could mean up to $20 billion in deals, shaped in part by the negotiating positions of various camps during the lengthy nuclear talks. And for Iran Air’s 38-year-old Boeing 747SP, the last of its kind, it should mean well-deserved retirement. …

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The libs are the true Mammon-worshipers. Well, better hope that they don’t use that B747SP as a suicide bomb plane once you sell them new airplanes.

[DesertRhino]

Meanwhile, we sell F-35s to Turkeys and anything the Saudis ask for, all kinds of small arms to ISIS,,, oh, and F-16s to the Pakis.
Im not sure if I fully understand why I can trust all of them, but the Iranian Persians are -deadly-.

[faithhopecharity]

Was it V. Lenin who observed that the West would be only too happy to provide them the very ropes they’d need to hang us?

[GeronL]

this cannot be for real

the whole world has gone nuts

[glorgau]

It’s just Reuters doing a little more front running for the Obama administration.

[DesertRhino]

Very solid point

[The_Media_never_lie]

Can their be much doubt that business interests are driving this foolish deal? Maybe business interests are influencing the GOPe to go along?

[Olog-hai]

Number 37 in the list of communist goals for the USA from the Congressional Record back in 1963 is “Infiltrate and gain control of big business.” It would be folly to think that the communists actually were not hard at work at this even before 1963.

And as for the GOP (establishment mainly), goal number 15 is “Capture one—or both—of the political parties in the United States” (emphasis mine).