EghtesadOnline: Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi Company has dismissed a report released by Russian news agency Sputnik on Wednesday that Iran’s Defense Ministry had signed a contract to buy 12 Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger planes.

EghtesadOnline: The Russian planemaker Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company is trying to obtain a license from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to sell its Super Jet 100 aircraft to Iran, according to an official with the Association of Iranian Airlines.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian airlines have expressed interest in buying Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger jets.

EghtesadOnline: The Russian company Sukhoi Civil Aircraft will get back to the issue of selling Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) jets to Iran after reducing the share of US components in the plane to under 10%, the firm’s president, Alexander Rubtsov, said on Thursday.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s flag carrier airline, Iran Air, has no plan to renovate its fleet with Russian-made Sukhoi jets, even now that buying aircraft from western planemakers has faced serious challenges amid US sanctions.

EghtesadOnline: Russia’s co-chair of the Russian-Iranian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation announced on Wednesday that Iran has expressed interest in purchasing 12 Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ 100) airliners.

EghtesadOnline: Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan said on Saturday Moscow has accepted Tehran's terms on "joint investment and supply of technology" for the purchase of Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets.