Original sentence: After the Islamic Revolution, the project was abandoned until the government of Iran decided to design and build the airport using local know-how and to be a successor International Aiport to Mehrabad rather than the Transit design earlier.Due to the growth of Iran Air in the International travel market at the time, it was decided that the older Mehrabad was not suitable for the continuous handling of Passengers and aircraft for stopovers to Europe, Asia or the United States and its location in the city made additional construction extremely difficult.It was not to be used for international departures for Iranian Citizens.So the idea was made to create a second airport outside of the city boundries designed only for transit passengers to other countries
Edited sentence: After the Islamic Revolution, the project was abandoned until the government of Iran decided to design and build the airport using local know-how