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Yes,thats why You would need to have full,complete indigenous production of the aircraft and its engines,avionics and weapons and this would also need to be the case with the su30 as well,its the only way to safely insure that you dont fall victim to any sanctions blackmail or other political/economic game playing,anything else even local assembly is just a complete waste of time and leaves you far,far too vulnerable.I think France are too close the US orbit, and on top of that they can be bribed with more arms deals by the Saudis. Even supposing they sell us anything, there is more a guarantee that they will stop spares support than not.
Now there is another option and I mention it only because it does exist and that would be to follow the dprks example ie a nuclear deterrent,OR at least to credibly threaten the possibility of this if iran doesnt get what it wants ie good old political blackmail or "if we are going to be prevented from acquiring new fighter aircraft and conventional weapons then we may have no choice but to seriously reconsider our non nuclear weapons policy!",its basically an implied threat of a nuclear armed iran with everything that would entail and I think if delivered in the right fashion it could be very,very effective as a nuclear armed iran would completely alter the power balance in the region and certainly not in favor of the west and its vassals.Personally I think iran urgently needs to start playing hardball with the west especially now that you have a,to my mind at least,potentially very dangerous [deranged possibly?] imbecile like trump running the show,unfortunately I just dont think rouhani and co are even remotely up to that sort of task at all sadly.
Then again there is the chinese option I suppose but technologically their engines and avionics are still not up to the standards of the west/russia but then again an inferior su30 copy is probably better than no su30 at all and they will always need iranian oil so thats a potential pressure point.
The other option would have been an indigenous program to reverse engineer and ultimately reengineer and improve the f14 but sadly I think iran has left it far,far too late for that option,realistically a program like that would`ve had to be begun at least a decade ago in order for it to be reaching fruition now,hell the iranian airforce didnt even have the resources to upgrade the f14 fleet to "M" standard.
Regardless of who supplies what the simple fact is that it needs to be supplied and soon,iran has neglected its regular military for far too long and it now risks paying the price of that neglect and negligence,we can only hope that the events in saudi wake irans leaders up to these facts right now rather than later.