Kulo nyaka uphelileyo, iNkampani ye-JSC Sukhoi yaseRashiya ityikitye isivumelwano sokuzisa iijethi zabakhweli zengingqi ezingama-40 ezineenjini ezimbini, iSukhoi Superjet 100R, kwiinqwelomoya ezimbini zaseIran – uKhenketho loMoya lwase-Iran kunye ne-Aseman Airlines. Isivumelwano esinamabhongo ngakumbi seenqwelomoya ezilikhulu ukonyusa inqwelomoya yase-Iran eyalupheleyo nayo yaqwalaselwa.
Kodwa, njengoko kubonakala ngoku, i-Iran ayizukufumana iinqwelomoya zaseRussia emva kwayo yonke loo nto. Isivumelwano, ekukholelwa ukuba sixabisa ngaphezulu kwe-2 yeebhiliyoni zeedola, sifile ngenxa yezithintelo zorhwebo zase-US. Iijethi zaseRashiya zineenxalenye ezininzi ezenziwe e-US kunezo zivumelekileyo ukuthunyelwa ngaphandle kwemvume yaseWashington.
"Kubonakala ngathi ngenxa yokungabikho kwelayisenisi ekhutshwe yi-OFAC (i-Ofisi kaNondyebo wase-US yoLawulo lweeMpahla zaNgaphandle), ukufika kweenqwelo moya akusabuzwa okwangoku," uMaqsoud Asadi Samani, osebenza njengonobhala woMbutho. ye-Iranian Airlines, ixelele i-Iranian Labor New Agency (ILNA).
Kuthiwa wayethetha malunga nokuthengwa kweenqwelomoya ze-20 ze-Iran Air Tours, i-subsidiary yomphathi weflegi yelizwe i-IranAir, kunye nesivumelwano sokuqeshisa esiqulunqwe "enye indiza yase-Iranian," ngokutsho kwe-arhente. Igosa alizange likhankanye i-Aseman Airlines, eyalela ezinye iijethi ze-20 ezivela eRashiya.
Ingxaki kukuba ngaphezu kweepesenti ze-10 zezixhobo zeenqwelo-moya - i-avionics kunye nezixhobo eziphezulu zobuchwepheshe, ziveliswa e-US, oku kuthetha ukuba imvume evela eWashington iyafuneka, i-ILNA ibike.
USukhoi uthi bekuselithuba ukuba azisole malunga ne-Iran engazifumani iijethi. “Asikhange sifumane mpendulo – nokuba yeyakhayo okanye engalunganga” evela e-US malunga nokuvunywa kwesivumelwano, itshilo inkonzo yenkampani.
Umvelisi waseRashiya ngaphambili wathembisa ukunciphisa inani lamalungu ase-US. Ngo-Matshi 2018, intloko ye-Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, u-Alexander Rubtsov, wathi le nkampani yayizama ukufumana ababoneleli bangaphandle nabasekhaya bamacandelo kwi-Sukhoi SuperJet 100 (SSJ-100) esanda kuyilwa.
I-Iran kudala ibambekile kukunqongophala kweenqwelomoya zale mihla emva kwamashumi eminyaka yohlwayo lwaseNtshona. Imeko yadamba emva kokuba amagunya ehlabathi etyikitye isivumelwano senyukliya ne-Iran ngo-2015, eyivumela ukuba iodole iinqwelomoya ezintsha kwizigebenga zemizi-mveliso ezifana ne-Airbus kunye ne-Boeing.
Nangona kunjalo, izivumelwano ziye zacinywa ngokufanelekileyo emva kokuba i-US yarhoxa kwisivumelwano ne-Iran kwaye yabeka kwakhona imiqobo yezoqoqosho e-Iran. Phambi kokuba iilayisenisi zokuthengisa zase-US zirhoxiswe, iinkampani zaseIran zafumana kuphela iinqwelomoya ezili-16 kwezinye iinqwelomoya ezingama-200 ezaziyalelwe-ezintathu ukusuka kwi-Airbus kunye ne-13 kwi-Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR.
Ukujongana nokulibaziseka kuphuculo lweenqwelomoya zayo, iTehran yajikela eMoscow. Kwinyanga ephelileyo, intloko yeCivil Aviation Organisation, u-Ali Abedzadeh, uthe imarike enkulu yaseIran ifuna iinqwelomoya ezingama-500 kwaye ithathela ingqalelo iSukhoi SuperJet njengenye yeendlela zokuzalisa isithuba.
