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US Okays Sale Of Spare Airplane Parts To Iran
2014-04-06
[Ynet] Boeing Co. said Friday that it received U.S. government approval to export certain spare parts for commercial airplanes to Iran.
"After the election I will be more...flexible," said The Smartest Man In The Room to the Russian. And so he has proved to be.
Almost as flexible as Putin's girlfriend...
A Boeing front man said that the parts were needed to ensure safe flight, but he declined to describe them further or put a dollar amount on them.

Boeing's last delivery to Iran was a 747-100 jumbo jet in 1979 - three months before American hostages were seized in Tehran.

Birtel said Boeing got a license from the US Treasury Department to export the spare parts under a temporary agreement reached with the Iranians last year.
Posted by:trailing wife

#10  #9 Why would anyone want to fly in an Iranian airliner?

The Insh'Allah Adrenalin RushŽ?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-04-06 17:44  

#9  Why would anyone want to fly in an Iranian airliner?
Posted by: gorb   2014-04-06 16:25  

#8  Haven't we been at war with Iran since they attacked us in 1979?
Posted by: irishrageboy   2014-04-06 15:36  

#7  I dunno, newc. Some of us are still pissy about that whole embassy hostage crisis thingie. A long time ago, maybe. But the exact same folks are running the country today.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-04-06 13:43  

#6  I side with Boeing on this. Craft is not only used in Iran and not only Iranians fly in it. Iranians are not the problem, regime behavior is.
Posted by: newc   2014-04-06 12:10  

#5  We will be firm and resolute. Except where large corporate donors are concerned.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-04-06 11:10  

#4  Doubtful any Boeing parts would have any application to anything Iran has that is military; their F-5/T-38 and F-14 force is Northrop/Grumman
But assisting them in any way is just stupid.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-04-06 11:08  

#3  They don't have to be serviceable parts. They could even be parts with built-in flaws . . . . if you catch my drift.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2014-04-06 09:57  

#2  Selling scrap iron to the Japanese in the late 1930's. History always seem to repeat itself.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-06 00:31  

#1  The idea Mr. Boeing, is to keep the Iranian bastards from engaging in safe flight.
Any parts they receive will go to military planes first.
God forbid they attack us with a plane containing those 'spare parts'
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2014-04-06 00:27  

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