Iran has announced its intention to build a 150 seat single aisle airliner to meet its own (projected) need for 600 airliners in the future and to eliminate the problems in acquiring aircraft from Airbus and Boeing due to sanctions.

This will never happen ever.

Expect Iran to approach China about participating in some small way on the COMAC 919 airliner some time next year.  China might even agree to it but I rather doubt it given the US participation in that project.  China needs the US way more than it needs the irrational government of Iran.

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