The United States imposed terrorism sanctions on Iran's ambassador to Yemen, claiming Hasan Irlu's recent dispatch to Yemen as a signal Tehran plans to make it harder to resolve the five-year war in the country.
The Bank Melli Iran (BMI) has dismissed a claim by US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that it has been funneling "billions of dollars" to its Iraqi branch in order to fund militias.
Airbus and Boeing are going to send their representatives to Iran to discuss how to carry out their deals with the Islamic Republic, Iranian Minister of Transport Abbas Akhondi said.
The Treasury is expected to start approving sales of Airbus jets within days.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced Iran's readiness to remove all foreign banks' concerns in the field of cooperation with Iran by obtaining letter of assurances from the special section of supervising sanctions in the US treasury.
Iran has reached an agreement with Boeing for purchase of 100 aircrafts, said Ali Abedzadeh, head of the country's Civil Aviation Organization.
