On February 8, 2018 (December 23, 2017 in the lunar calendar), an Iranian plane carrying 66 people crashed in southern Iraq. The "Russia Today" website quoted Iran's Tasnim News Agency on February 18, 2018 that a plane carrying at least 60 passengers crashed near the Iranian city of Semirom. According to Fox News, citing the latest news from Iranian domestic media, the plane that crashed was an ATR-72 passenger plane that was originally intended to fly from the capital Tehran to the southern city of Yasuj. According to the latest news from the Associated Press, Iran's Aseman Airlines, which belongs to the crashed passenger plane, announced that all 66 people on board the crashed passenger plane had been killed. Reported that the international community's sanctions against Iran have lasted for decades, Iran's commercial airliners mostly aging phenomenon, in recent years frequent aviation accidents. After signing the Iran nuclear agreement in 2015, Iran also signed agreements with Airbus and Boeing to purchase a considerable number of passenger planes.