{"id":168004,"date":"2025-01-18T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iran-sanctioned-fleet-flying\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:00:10","slug":"how-iran-keeps-its-airline-fleet-flying-through-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=168004","title":{"rendered":"How Iran Keeps Its Airline Fleet Flying Through Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"22924\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iran\/\"  >Iran<\/a><\/span> is one of the most heavily             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264779\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iran-sanctions\/\"  >sanctioned<\/a><\/span> countries on earth, and yet it manages to maintain a fleet of mostly Western-built aircraft flying. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/world\/state-of-the-art-subterfuge-how-iran-kept-flying-under-sanctions-idUSKCN0V908Q\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Reuters<\/a> once put it, Iran&#8217;s fleet is a vintage collection of jets held together with smuggled parts. North Korea and Cuba are also heavily sanctioned, but         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031057\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-koryo-north-korea-facts-list\/\" >they operate legacy Soviet\/Russian commercial aircraft<\/a><\/span>(additionally, their commercial aviation industry is minimal while the countries are compact). Iran is much larger and is in need of a domestic airline industry (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036635\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-is-russia-in-a-rush-to-build-new-commercial-jets\/\" >as the world&#8217;s largest country, this is very important for Russia<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is able to buy retired aircraft through shelf companies while smuggling parts on the black market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,790,749,4087,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-iran","category-iran-air","category-iran-sanctions","category-north-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168005,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168004\/revisions\/168005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}