WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Iran Wants to Buy 500 Planes and Resume Flights to the U.S.

The headline and the story courtesy of Ed Driscoll at Instapundit:

Iran will need hundreds of new aircraft as it rejoins global aviation networks, a move that could include direct flights to the U.S. for the first time in 36 years...

...Years of sanctions have left Iran's airlines with outdated and unsafe aircraft. With those restrictions now lifted, Iran is looking to spend heavily with Boeing (BA) and Airbus (EADSF), Iranian transport minister Abbas Akhondi told CNN.

"We think [we need] about 100 short range fleet for our local flights. And for international flights about 400 fleet, who can do the middle and long range flights," Akhondi told CNN at an aviation conference. "Iran will compete in 5 to 7 years with all the major regional airlines."

While Iran is working on ICBM technology (blatantly violating terms of their various agreements with the allied nations), who needs missiles when you can fly planes to the U.S.?

Iran has announced that nuclear EMP attacks are "Sharia-approved" (legally allowed by the non-Islamic religion of Islam). Which means a couple of Iranian planes over New York City and Washington, DC detonating EMP weapons could cripple the Eastern seaboard.

But why worry about Iran in our hemisphere? After all, it's busy humiliating the United States Navy in the Middle East, capturing our sailors, firing heavy weapons near our ships, and even flying a drone over an aircraft carrier.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.