Lawmakers Call on Boeing to Halt Civil Aircraft Negotiations with Iran
Illinois Republican Reps. Peter Roskam, Robert Dold, and Randy Hultgren are pressuring Boeing not to sell aircraft to Iran, after learning of apparent company discussions with Iranian government-run firms, according to a letter sent by the lawmakers to Boeing CEO…
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Dennis Muilenburg (here). “Such commercial transactions would effectively subsidize the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, significantly augmenting the regime’s ability to sow the seeds of death and destruction around the globe,” they said. “We urge Boeing – in the strongest possible terms – not to do business with Iran until it ends its support for terror. We have already conveyed this message to your international competitors in the aviation industry.” Although the Obama administration continued most sanctions against Iran despite negotiation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), “a specific exception” was made for commercial aircraft sales, and the congressmen said forgoing planned sales isn’t about legal compliance, but rather “about doing what is right.” They said Iran Air, the country’s flagship, state-run airline, was “only recently” delisted from Treasury’s sanctions list in a move that many viewed as a JCPOA-related concession, and that commercial jets would likely be converted into warplanes for the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps.