Iran Air has signed an agreement with an unnamed Chinese company over the funding of its plane purchase campaigns from Airbus and Boeing.

A portable camera carried by Chinese rescuers who boarded the burning oil tanker Sanchi captured live moments of their search for survivors and the black box of the ship.

Iran took delivery of the first four ATR aircraft in May and two more in September, with the rest due to be handed over to the country by the end of 2018.

This edition of the program is about political events of 2017, including Iranian and US presidential elections, Daesh terror attacks in Tehran and the US’s violations of the nuclear deal.​​​​​​​

Iran has played down recent US threats against its plane purchase campaigns from global aviation giants and says it expects the purchases to move ahead smoothly as a funding mechanism for purchases is being worked out.

A federal court in Chicago has extended a deadline for the US administration to clarity its position regarding the national security implications of Boeing’s deal with Iran Air.

Iran’s national flag-carrier airline Iran Air has received two more turboprop planes from the Franco-Italian aviation player ATR. 

Iran Air says it expects to receive two more ATR planes before November. 

Iran’s Kish Airline has announced an ambitious plan to purchase over a dozen new planes from global aviation giant Airbus and Boeing.

According to Iran's Asghar Fakhriyeh-Kashan, the total value of the contracts with Airbus, Boeing and ATR is less than $18 billion.