Iran Air was the last airline to cancel an order for two Concorde aircraft, which it ordered in 1972. Only after the Iranian Revolution and Concorde production ended, which both took place in 1979, did the official cancellation come in April 1980. That was how sophisticated the oldest airline in the Middle East had been before the Shah was toppled. Its predecessor, Iranian Airways, had been founded in 1944; the current name was introduced in 1961, decades before anyone would even think of founding airlines in the much smaller Gulf states who rule aviation today.
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