Iran's sanction-beating MRO network is now operational claims IAO

Speaking to the official FARS news agency. director-general of the IAO's Office for Engineering and Flight Capability, Mostafa Haqiqatjou said that the repairing process of different types of Airbus, Boeing and Fokker aircraft are currently underway inside the country.
Haqiqatjou said the country was developing all of the necessary skills and technology to conduct the repair and maintenance operations of all helicopters, light planes and wide-body airliners on the national register. He claimed the IAO had taken the “necessary measures to transfer and indigenize repair and maintenance technologies for different types of aircraft.

"Right now, the detailed checking procedures of Airbus 310, 320 as well as the repair and maintenance of Airbus 300-600 are being conducted inside the country," Haqiqatjou said.
"Over 95% of the repair and maintenance of our light planes and choppers are also being done inside the country," he said.
The move to create a domestic self-sustained MRO business has been underway for some time, In Sepember 2009 the IAO spokesman Reza confirmed Iran had developed the capability to fix Boeing 747 passenger aircraft as a direct response to the sanctions imposed by the US on Iran's air industries.
"Imposing sanctions on the air industry (of Iran) by the US has made the Iranian experts acquire the knowledge and know-how for repairing Boeing 747 airplanes," he told the news agency at the time.