Iran says delivery of ATR planes "positive" gesture of Europe

Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development, Abbas Akhoundi, delivers a speech beside an ATR 72-600 passenger plane at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 5, 2018. The French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR delivered five more turboprops to Iran on Sunday, official IRNA news agency reported. The ATR 72-600 passenger planes landed at Tehran's international Mehrabad airport on Sunday morning, a day before the United States reimposed the first round of sanctions on Iran. (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz)