U.S. lawmakers to debate measures to block Boeing aircraft sale to Iran

[raptor22]

U.S. lawmakers to debate measures to block Boeing aircraft sale to Iran

WASHINGTON • A House of Representatives panel will debate legislation on Thursday intended to block Boeing Co.'s planned sale of dozens of commercial aircraft to Iran, which could also affect other aircraft manufacturers, including Airbus if they became law.

A Financial Services subcommittee will debate three measures, including one that would prohibit the U.S. Treasury from licensing the sale announced last month. Another would bar the Treasury secretary for authorizing transactions by U.S. financial institutions connected to the export of aircraft.

A third measure would bar the Export-Import Bank from financing involving any entity that does business with Iran or provides financing to another entity to facilitate transactions with Iran.

"I am extremely concerned that by relaxing the rules, the Obama administration has allowed U.S. companies to be complicit in weaponizing the Iranian regime," Rep. Bill Huizenga, chairman of the Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee, said in a statement on Wednesday.

If the bills became law, they would affect other firms' sales to Iran because virtually all modern jets have more than 10 percent U.S. content, the threshold for requiring export licenses.

A House committee aide said the full financial services committee was likely to approve the bills, but a vote had not yet been scheduled. However, the measures showed the extent of concern by Republicans, who control majorities in both the House and Senate, about the Iran deal and the potential Boeing sale.



Democrats, including President Barack Obama, are expected to oppose the legislation.

While most congressional Democrats backed the Iran deal announced a year ago, every Republican U.S. lawmaker opposed the pact in which the United States and international partners agreed to ease crippling economic sanctions in exchange for Tehran curtailing its nuclear program.

When news of the Boeing deal emerged, several Republicans in Congress worried that it could threaten U.S. national security. Asked about those concerns last month, a Boeing executive noted last month that the Obama administration considered implementation of the nuclear pact "critical" to national security.

A "memorandum of agreement" (MOA) calls for IranAir to buy a total of 80 aircraft from Boeing and lease a further 29 with Boeing's support. Deliveries of the purchased jets are scheduled to start in 2017 and run through 2025.

An Iranian official told Reuters some officials in Tehran are concerned about the legislation, arguing that if such measures become law they could endanger implementation of the nuclear deal by intensifying pressure on Iran President Hassan Rouhani to take a harder line in his dealings with the United States and its allies.

 

[Aramagedon]

So what is it?!!

 

[DavidSling]

So what is it?!!

Cause iranians didn't burn U.S flags only few days ago and called death to america
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/01/o...rn-american-flag-and-stone-statue-of-liberty/

 

[Dawood Ibrahim]

Some how i feel they will get it

 

[Aramagedon]

Cause iranians didn't burn U.S flags only few days ago and called death to america
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/01/o...rn-american-flag-and-stone-statue-of-liberty/

The reason that Iranians say 'down with USA' is their filthy regime.

https://defence.pk/threads/terrorism-cabalism-and-illuminism.436957

US government has killed millions of people on earth directly and indirectly, it has made tens of coups, many false flag attacks, many civil wars, it has used nukes, it supports terrorist and dictatorship regimes such as saudis and israelis. Aren't these crimes enough to say down with the USA?

 

[RoadRunner401]

Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga released the following statement after voting against legislation that increases spending and fails to address our nation's budgetary concerns:

“When will Washington wake up and realize that Americans across the country are tired of last minute deals that increase spending and fail to deliver fiscally responsible solutions? With our nation over $18 trillion in debt and climbing, Congress should be working to reduce spending, grow the economy, and get our nation’s fiscal house in order, not breaking budgetary caps to allow for more spending that mortgages our children’s future.

Congressman Bill Huizenga economic lesson; If you want to grow the economy you must stop selling billions of dollars worth of goods and concentrate on growing the economy and create jobs.

 

[DavidSling]

The reason that Iranians say 'down with USA' is their filthy regime.

https://defence.pk/threads/terrorism-cabalism-and-illuminism.436957

US government has killed millions of people on earth directly and indirectly, has made tens of coups, civil wars etc...

You're burning one nation's flags and calling death for their entire nation, but u wanna befriend with them? dont think so

 

[Aramagedon]

You're burning one nation's flags and calling death for their entire nation, but u wanna befriend with them? dont think so

US government is different from US nation. US nation itself are victims of US government and super rich Zionists.

If it wasn't because of American regime Iran would never burn America flag.


Iran is a country with 8000 years civilization and history on the other hand the only '300 years old' US is formed in native Indian lands and via massacring millions of them brutally and in barbaric ways.

Americans used weapons and terrorism since their creation in American continent. Number of weapons that today people own in the US is 3 times more than American population!

 

[mohsen]

too bad, I was going to put them beside our airbuses! as part of my perfect plan for a regional hub!
too bad my stupidity isn't less than Mosaddeq!

 

[Aramagedon]

Yeah ofcourse, blame the jews, always worked for ya all.
You people are funny, keep with ur hate attitude, and then cry a river why ur *** get sanctioned

You Zionists have screwed the world and you have made so many wars and bleedings on the earth.

https://defence.pk/threads/terrorism-cabalism-and-illuminism.436957

Lol Iran is under sanctions for 36 years and it has never changed it's policy. It's stupidity of some of our governors who think US is trusty.

 

[DavidSling]

You Zionists have screwed the world and you have made so many wars and bleedings on the earth.

https://defence.pk/threads/terrorism-cabalism-and-illuminism.436957

Lol Iran is under sanctions for 36 years and it has never changed it's policy. It's stupidity of some of our governors who think US is trusty.

Just go compare the number of casualties in Israel's war to the number of casualties in Iran Iraq war.
U'll see who shed more blood.
Anyway, have fun wondering why U.S is doing that and that to the "innocents" Iranians.

 

[Aramagedon]

Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga released the following statement after voting against legislation that increases spending and fails to address our nation's budgetary concerns:

“When will Washington wake up and realize that Americans across the country are tired of last minute deals that increase spending and fail to deliver fiscally responsible solutions? With our nation over $18 trillion in debt and climbing, Congress should be working to reduce spending, grow the economy, and get our nation’s fiscal house in order, not breaking budgetary caps to allow for more spending that mortgages our children’s future.

Congressman Bill Huizenga economic lesson; If you want to grow the economy you must stop selling billions of dollars worth of goods and concentrate on growing the economy and create jobs.

US is a bankrupt country...

Just go compare the number of casualties in Israel's war to the number of casualties in Iran Iraq war.
U'll see who shed more blood

Who supported saddam and sold him all kinds of weapons?

The US.

Also the casualties by filthy Zionists is not just limited to Palestinians. 9/11, attacking Iraq [which is caused death of 1.5 million persons, creating ISIS in Iraq, making civil war in Syria etc...

Zionists crimes are clearly listed in this very thread:

https://defence.pk/threads/terrorism-cabalism-and-illuminism.436957

 

[DavidSling]

US is a bankrupt country...


Who supported saddam and sold him all kinds of weapons?

The US.

And who supported Iran with all kind of weapons?
U.S and Israel

 

[Aramagedon]

President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush work in the Oval Office of the White House, July 20, 1984.
Starting in 1982 with Iranian success on the battlefield, the United States made its backing of Iraq more pronounced, normalizing relations with the government, supplying it with economic aid, counter-insurgency training, operational intelligence on the battlefield, and weapons.[1][16]

President Ronald Reagan initiated a strategic opening to Iraq, signing National Security Study Directive (NSSD) 4-82 and selectingDonald Rumsfeld as his emissary to Hussein, whom he visited in December 1983 and March 1984.[17] According to U.S. ambassador Peter W. Galbraith, far from winning the conflict, "the Reagan administration was afraid Iraq might actually lose."[18]

In 1982, Iraq was removed from a list of State Sponsors of Terrorism to ease the transfer ofdual-use technology to that country. According to investigative journalist Alan Friedman, Secretary of State Alexander Haigwas "upset at the fact that the decision had been made at the White House, even though the State Department was responsible for the list."[1] "I was not consulted," Haig is said to have complained.

Howard Teicher served on the National Security Council as director of Political-Military Affairs. He accompanied Rumsfeld to Baghdad in 1983.[19] According to his 1995 affidavit and separate interviews with former Reagan and Bush administration officials, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly directed armaments and hi-tech components to Iraq through false fronts and friendly third parties such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait, and they quietly encouraged rogue arms dealers and other private military companies to do the same:

[T]he United States actively supported the Iraqi war effort by supplying the Iraqis with billions of dollars of credits, by providing U.S. military intelligence and advice to the Iraqis, and by closely monitoring third country arms sales to Iraq to make sure that Iraq had the military weaponry required. The United States also provided strategic operational advice to the Iraqis to better use their assets in combat... The CIA, including both CIA Director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, ammunition and vehicles to Iraq. My notes, memoranda and other documents in my NSC files show or tend to show that the CIA knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, munitions and vehicles to Iraq.[20]

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Donald Rumsfeld meets Saddām on 19–20 December 1983. Rumsfeld visited again on 24 March 1984, the day the UN reported that Iraq had used mustard gas and tabun nerve agent against Iranian troops. The NY Times reported from Baghdad on 29 March 1984, that "American diplomats pronounce themselves satisfied with Iraq and the U.S., and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been established in all but name."[17]
The full extent of these covert transfers is not yet known. Teicher's files on the subject are held securely at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and many other Reagan Era documents that could help shine new light on the subject remain classified. Teicher declined to discuss details of the affidavit with the Washington Post shortly before the2003 invasion of Iraq.[21]

About two of every seven licenses for the export of "dual use" technology items approved between 1985 and 1990 by the U.S. Department of Commerce "went either directly to the Iraqi armed forces, to Iraqi end-users engaged in weapons production, or to Iraqi enterprises suspected of diverting technology" to weapons of mass destruction, according to an investigation by House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez. Confidential Commerce Department files also reveal that the Reagan and Bush administrations approved at least 80 direct exports to the Iraqi military. These included computers, communications equipment, aircraft navigation and radar equipment.[22]

In conformance with the Presidential directive, the U.S. began providing tactical battlefield advice to the Iraqi Army. "The prevailing view", says Alan Friedman, "was that if Washington wanted to prevent an Iranian victory, it would have to share some of its more sensitive intelligence photography with Saddam."[1]

At times, thanks to the White House's secret backing for the intelligence-sharing, U.S. intelligence officers were actually sent to Baghdad to help interpret the satellite information. As the White House took an increasingly active role in secretly helping Saddam direct his armed forces, the United States even built an expensive high-tech annex in Baghdad to provide a direct down-link receiver for the satellite intelligence and better processing of the information...[1]:27

The American military commitment that had begun with intelligence-sharing expanded rapidly and surreptitiously throughout the Iran–Iraq War. A former White House official explained that "by 1987, our people were actually providing tactical military advice to the Iraqis in the battlefield, and sometimes they would find themselves over the Iranian border, alongside Iraqi troops."[1]:38

Iraq used this data to target Iranian positions with chemical weapons, says ambassador Galbraith.[18]


The MK-84: Saudi Arabia transferred to Iraq hundreds of U.S.-made general-purpose "dumb bombs".[1]
According to retired Army Colonel W. Patrick Lang, senior defense intelligence officer for the United States Defense Intelligence Agency at the time, "the use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern" to Reagan and his aides, because they "were desperate to make sure that Iraq did not lose."[23] Lang disclosed that more than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency were secretly providing detailed information on Iranian deployments. He cautioned that the DIA "would have never accepted the use of chemical weapons against civilians, but the use against military objectives was seen as inevitable in the Iraqi struggle for survival." The Reagan administration did not stop aiding Iraq after receiving reports affirming the use of poison gas on Kurdish civilians.[24][25]

Joost R. Hiltermann says that when the Iraqi military turned its chemical weapons on the Kurds during the war, killing approximately 5,000 people in the town of Halabja and injuring thousands more, the Reagan administration actually sought to obscure Iraqi leadership culpability by suggesting, inaccurately, that the Iranians may have carried out the attack.[26]

 

[DavidSling]

President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush work in the Oval Office of the White House, July 20, 1984.
Starting in 1982 with Iranian success on the battlefield, the United States made its backing of Iraq more pronounced, normalizing relations with the government, supplying it with economic aid, counter-insurgency training, operational intelligence on the battlefield, and weapons.[1][16]

President Ronald Reagan initiated a strategic opening to Iraq, signing National Security Study Directive (NSSD) 4-82 and selectingDonald Rumsfeld as his emissary to Hussein, whom he visited in December 1983 and March 1984.[17] According to U.S. ambassador Peter W. Galbraith, far from winning the conflict, "the Reagan administration was afraid Iraq might actually lose."[18]

In 1982, Iraq was removed from a list of State Sponsors of Terrorism to ease the transfer ofdual-use technology to that country. According to investigative journalist Alan Friedman, Secretary of State Alexander Haigwas "upset at the fact that the decision had been made at the White House, even though the State Department was responsible for the list."[1] "I was not consulted," Haig is said to have complained.

Howard Teicher served on the National Security Council as director of Political-Military Affairs. He accompanied Rumsfeld to Baghdad in 1983.[19] According to his 1995 affidavit and separate interviews with former Reagan and Bush administration officials, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly directed armaments and hi-tech components to Iraq through false fronts and friendly third parties such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait, and they quietly encouraged rogue arms dealers and other private military companies to do the same:

[T]he United States actively supported the Iraqi war effort by supplying the Iraqis with billions of dollars of credits, by providing U.S. military intelligence and advice to the Iraqis, and by closely monitoring third country arms sales to Iraq to make sure that Iraq had the military weaponry required. The United States also provided strategic operational advice to the Iraqis to better use their assets in combat... The CIA, including both CIA Director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, ammunition and vehicles to Iraq. My notes, memoranda and other documents in my NSC files show or tend to show that the CIA knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, munitions and vehicles to Iraq.[20]

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Donald Rumsfeld meets Saddām on 19–20 December 1983. Rumsfeld visited again on 24 March 1984, the day the UN reported that Iraq had used mustard gas and tabun nerve agent against Iranian troops. The NY Times reported from Baghdad on 29 March 1984, that "American diplomats pronounce themselves satisfied with Iraq and the U.S., and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been established in all but name."[17]
The full extent of these covert transfers is not yet known. Teicher's files on the subject are held securely at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and many other Reagan Era documents that could help shine new light on the subject remain classified. Teicher declined to discuss details of the affidavit with the Washington Post shortly before the2003 invasion of Iraq.[21]

About two of every seven licenses for the export of "dual use" technology items approved between 1985 and 1990 by the U.S. Department of Commerce "went either directly to the Iraqi armed forces, to Iraqi end-users engaged in weapons production, or to Iraqi enterprises suspected of diverting technology" to weapons of mass destruction, according to an investigation by House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez. Confidential Commerce Department files also reveal that the Reagan and Bush administrations approved at least 80 direct exports to the Iraqi military. These included computers, communications equipment, aircraft navigation and radar equipment.[22]

In conformance with the Presidential directive, the U.S. began providing tactical battlefield advice to the Iraqi Army. "The prevailing view", says Alan Friedman, "was that if Washington wanted to prevent an Iranian victory, it would have to share some of its more sensitive intelligence photography with Saddam."[1]

At times, thanks to the White House's secret backing for the intelligence-sharing, U.S. intelligence officers were actually sent to Baghdad to help interpret the satellite information. As the White House took an increasingly active role in secretly helping Saddam direct his armed forces, the United States even built an expensive high-tech annex in Baghdad to provide a direct down-link receiver for the satellite intelligence and better processing of the information...[1]:27

The American military commitment that had begun with intelligence-sharing expanded rapidly and surreptitiously throughout the Iran–Iraq War. A former White House official explained that "by 1987, our people were actually providing tactical military advice to the Iraqis in the battlefield, and sometimes they would find themselves over the Iranian border, alongside Iraqi troops."[1]:38

Iraq used this data to target Iranian positions with chemical weapons, says ambassador Galbraith.[18]


The MK-84: Saudi Arabia transferred to Iraq hundreds of U.S.-made general-purpose "dumb bombs".[1]
According to retired Army Colonel W. Patrick Lang, senior defense intelligence officer for the United States Defense Intelligence Agency at the time, "the use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern" to Reagan and his aides, because they "were desperate to make sure that Iraq did not lose."[23] Lang disclosed that more than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency were secretly providing detailed information on Iranian deployments. He cautioned that the DIA "would have never accepted the use of chemical weapons against civilians, but the use against military objectives was seen as inevitable in the Iraqi struggle for survival." The Reagan administration did not stop aiding Iraq after receiving reports affirming the use of poison gas on Kurdish civilians.[24][25]

Joost R. Hiltermann says that when the Iraqi military turned its chemical weapons on the Kurds during the war, killing approximately 5,000 people in the town of Halabja and injuring thousands more, the Reagan administration actually sought to obscure Iraqi leadership culpability by suggesting, inaccurately, that the Iranians may have carried out the attack.[26]

Israeli logistical support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88)[edit]
Main article: Israeli support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq war
Israel sold Iran US$75 million worth of arms from stocks of Israel Military Industries, Israel Aircraft Industries and Israel Defense Forces stockpiles, in their Operation Seashell in 1981.[25] Material included 150 M-40 antitank guns with 24,000 shells for each gun, spare parts for tank and aircraft engines, 106 mm, 130 mm, 203 mm and 175 mm shells and TOW missiles. This material was transported first by air by Argentine airline Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense and then by ship. The same year Israel provided active military support against Iraq by destroying the Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad, which the Iranians themselves had previously targeted, but the doctrine established by the attack would increase potential conflict in future years.

Arms sales to Iran that totaled an estimated $500 million from 1981 to 1983 according to the Jafe Institute for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Most of it was paid for by Iranian oil delivered to Israel. "According to Ahmad Haidari, "an Iranian arms dealer working for the Khomeini government, roughly 80% of the weaponry bought by Tehran" immediately after the onset of the war originated in Israel.[26]


An Iranian stamp issued in memory of Suleiman Khater, who perpetuated the Ras Burqa massacre against Israeli tourists in 1985.
According to Mark Phythian, the fact "that the Iranian air force could function at all" after Iraq's initial attack and "was able to undertake a number of sorties over Baghdad and strike at strategic installations" was "at least partly due to the decision of the Reagan administration to allow Israel to channel arms of US origin to Iran to prevent an easy and early Iraqi victory."[27]

Despite all the speeches of Iranian leaders and the denunciation of Israel at Friday prayers, there were never less than around one hundred Israeli advisers and technicians in Iran at any time throughout the war, living in a carefully guarded and secluded camp just north of Tehran, where they remained even after the ceasefire.[28]

Israel's support was "crucial" to keeping Iran's air force flying against Iraq. Israeli sales also included spare parts for U.S.-made F-4 Phantom jets. Newsweek also reported that after an Iranian defector landed his F-4 Phantom jet in Saudi Arabia in 1984, intelligence experts determined that many of its parts had originally been sold to Israel, and had then been re-exported to Tehran in violation of U.S. law.[29] Ariel Sharon believed it was important to "leave a small window open" to the possibility of good relations with Iran in the future.[30]