Posted on 01/16/2016 11:58:05 AM PST by Olog-hai
Iran plans to buy 114 civil aircraft from European aircraft maker Airbus, the transport minister was quoted as saying on Saturday, ahead of the anticipated lifting of international sanctions on Iran.
"We have taken the first step in agreeing with Airbus to buy 114 planes," Abbas Akhoondi was quoted as saying by the Tasnim news agency.
Airbus said it was not engaging in commercial talks with Iran until sanctions had been lifted. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
Are they going to buy or just promise to lease?
I’m guessing a one way lease... 114 bombs.
Obama’s $150 billion stimulus to Iran...looks like at least $30 billion of it will go to the E.U.
We give em 150 bil. They buy European jets. Finger eye some assembly required.
From whom are they going to buy engines? Airbus & GE are pretty tight.
Obama...”what do ya think a stimulus is?”
so now we know
obama will be paid off from the Euros if he is able to receive and spend the treasonously gotten gains
The imams and their kids will be partying in style.
They won the Obama lottery and are looking for ways to spend it. I am sure nukes are somewhere on the list as well.
Hey! Maybe the U.S. could just buy the jets for Iran to grovel grovel grovel oops I mean to ease any tensions between us and them.
The last bad-ass Iranian jet I saw was a mock-up made of fiberglass.
Looks cool, though.
Never fly.. but cool looking. Bit small, but it's not like it's actually going to fly anywhere.
Nice chair though.
Looks like an 8-track deck below the GPS screen.
Let me get this straight. Iran buys 114 airbus planes. What are the chances that one of those flying to London, Berlin, Riyadh, Washington, NYC etc.is loaded with a nuclear device in Iran, or maybe several, or maybe all?
They don’t have to worry about the TSA in Tehran!
We are IDIOTS!
Going to start building Air Bus in Mobile, Alabama. One model only per news paper, 347 I think.
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