On March, 2007 Iran Air, Iran's national airline, had completed its first direct flight to Venezuela.
On at least 10 occasions in 2007, parts tucked inside Air Koryo and Iran Air flights transited Chinese airspace.
But Iran endured the deadliest single accident of the year on 9 January, when an Iran Air Boeing 727 crashed near Orumiyeh, killing 77.
Iran Air has weekly direct flights between Caracas, Damascus and Tehran.
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The national carrier, Iran Air, continues to operate, he adds.
Iran Air launches weekly flights to Venezuela through Syria.
John McCain was asked for his opinion of Brzezinski's recommendation that the US shoot down IAF jets en route to Iran in a hypothetical Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear installations.
But life outside Iran, while the air is plentiful, can be artistically disorienting.
And with the prospect of diplomatic "progress" with Iran on Iraq in the air, the US certainly doesn't want to rock the boat by pursuing the issue of Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Most disturbing was a late-September Chinese air force exercise with the Turkish air force (which included a stop in Iran) that probably compromised sensitive NATO air-war-fighting tactics.
The American press continues to speculate about American and perhaps Israeli air attacks against Iran's nuclear sites.
The former president of the Kent Golf Society denies trying to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles to Iran.
In November 2005, Russia agreed to sell Iran 29 Tor-M1 air defense systems capable of destroying both aircraft and cruise missiles.
Besides which, the Administration has done little to prepare the American public for the possible need to launch air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities.
In an essay published this spring in Commentary, he made the case for a unilateral American air assault on Iran as the only way to prevent its otherwise inexorable drive to nuclear status and regional hegemony.
Putin had mentioned that Russia had sold defensive air systems to Iran so that Iran would not feel cornered and threatened, and Larijani also said that any of the missiles that Iran has are purely for defensive purposes.
As the Americans, French and Russians were offering them more than they could have ever imagined possible - including the prospect of US personnel serving as human shields against a possible Israeli air strike on Iran's nuclear installations - back in Teheran they ratcheted up their demands.
It has the air capability to disrupt Iran's nuclear program for a couple of years.
Russia sells Iran advanced offensive weaponry, advanced air defense systems, and helps them build nuclear reactors.
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Using its missile and perhaps air force capabilities, Iran could do substantial damage in Israel, especially to civilian targets.
Israel can order the Israel Air Force to bomb Iran's nuclear and missile facilities with the aim of denying Iran the ability to attack the Jewish state.
" To this end, he proposes planning "for a massive air and missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
It was built on a military base, says Iran, the better to defend it from air strikes.
And he divulged information about Israel's purported nuclear arsenal and Israeli Air Force rehearsals of assaults on Iran.
Most of the aviation fatalities in 2011 occurred in Russia, Iran and African countries that have long faced air-safety problems, such as Angola and Congo.
As a result, Israel likes to argue, the world owes the Jewish state a huge debt of gratitude. (By the same token, perhaps Saddam should be thanked for bombing Iran's reactor at Bushehr in the 1980s.) Last year Israel carried out a long-distance military air exercise over Greece that looked like a rehearsal for action in Iran.
Gen Hoseyn Salami, the Guards' air force commander, said the tests demonstrated Iran's "resolve and might against enemies who in recent weeks have threatened Iran with harsh language".
Iran was then involved in the bombing of the US Air Force Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia in June 1996, an attack in which 19 U.S. airmen were killed.
Russia exports arms to China, Venezuela, Syria and other countries at odds with the U.S. Most alarming have been Russia's sales to Iran of a nuclear reactor and surface-to-air missiles to defend it, even as Moscow blocks serious UN sanctions against Tehran.
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