Trump Faces Test as Boeing Announces Deal to Sell Jetliners to Iran -<br />By RICK GLADSTONEAPRIL 4, 2017<br />The Boeing Company announced a tentative agreement on Tuesday to sell up to 60 737s to an Iranian airline, a transaction valued at $6 billion<br />that angered American critics of Iran and appeared likely to test the Trump administration’s avowed hostility toward that country.<br />Boeing, a leading commercial aerospace company and a top American exporter, said in a statement<br />that the agreement, which requires United States government approval, would create about 18,000 American jobs.<br />Boeing announced an agreement last December to sell 80 commercial aircraft to Iran Air, the national carrier, a deal valued at $16.6 billion.<br />Boeing says that there are sufficient safeguards in place to prevent Iranian misuse of the aircraft, and<br />that the tentative deal announced on Tuesday is legal under the nuclear agreement.
