The long-haul A330-200 landed at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, the official news agency IRNA reported, as flag-carrier IranAir tries to renew its decaying fleet.
The aircraft joins another A330 and a smaller A321 delivered to Iran earlier this year by Airbus.Airbus was not immediately available for comment.Iran's pragmatist president Hassan Rouhani's success in ending international sanctions by reaching a deal with world powers has also intensified tensions ahead of May presidential elections with hardliners, who have criticized the deal for a lack of tangible economic benefits since sanctions were lifted.Iran has ordered 100 airliners from European planemaker Airbus and 80 from Boeing