{"id":5609,"date":"2016-09-25T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T03:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2016-09-25T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T03:52:33","slug":"iran-air-transport-of-weapons-troops-and-cash-to-terrorists-and-rogue-regimes-are-major-concern-of-us-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5609\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIran Air transport of weapons, troops, and cash to terrorists and rogue regimes,” are major concern of US lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republican Representatives Pete Roskam & Job Hensarling<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senior Republican U.S. lawmakers made insisted on Friday they will continue to push against Boeing and Airbus jetliner sales to the Iranian regime, despite the U.S. Treasury Department allowing for the exports, Reuters reported.
\nRepublican Representatives Pete Roskam and Jeb Hensarling wrote to Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which oversees sanctions, demanding more answers about any security implications of the delivery of aircraft to Iran.
\n‘There is little evidence indicating that Iran Air has indeed stopped transporting weapons, troops, and cash to terrorist groups and rogue regimes,’ the congressmen wrote in a letter, dated Thursday, seen by Reuters.
\nBoth congressmen hold influential financial positions in the House of Representatives. Hensarling is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Roskam is chairman of the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee’s Oversight subcommittee.
\nAirbus and Boeing said on Wednesday they had received the Treasury’s approval to begin exporting over 200 jets to Iran, under a deal struck in January.
\nSome members of Congress have raised concerns that killing the deal could cost jobs at Boeing plants, but opponents of the deal argue that security concerns are more important.
\nThe letter to Adam Szubin, acting under secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, asked for answers to several detailed questions on issues including Iran Air’s leadership, the Treasury’s ability to control transfers of aircraft or parts once they are in Iran’s hands and the nuclear pact.
\nForeign banks have been reluctant to finance the aircraft deals, fearing they could fall foul of remaining sanctions prohibiting the use of the U.S. financial system for Iranian business.
\nWith U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump strongly critical of the rapprochement, some banks fear they could be left with no insurance if sanctions against the Iranian regime ‘snap back.’
\nRepublican members of Congress unanimously opposed the nuclear agreement last year, seen as one of Democratic President Barack Obama’s foreign policy achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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