On the recordJuly 7, 2016
We have an opportunity to do a good thing, and the good thing is this: to prohibit the Iranian regime from getting a product that is fungible militarily. One begins to ask oneself: What can that be, and how could the Congress be involved in that? It is very simple. There is a large American company, which is the Boeing Company, that is now seeking to do a deal, and the deal that they are seeking to do is to sell billions of dollars' worth of planes to the Iranians. Now, the Iranian regime--let's stipulate that everybody agrees--is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. When I say ``everybody,'' I mean everybody. Capitol Hill agrees; the administration agrees; the President says that is true; the Secretary of State says that is true. Yet they are on the verge of getting something that can be used for a military purpose. What is that? That is a Boeing plane. This is a tweet from May of this year when the Boeing Company tweeted this: ``These airplanes don't retire. They're getting another 20 years of life. See how. #freighters.'' That is exactly it. Boeing, in a moment of candor, overdisclosed one of the interesting things--and they are really attractive things--about their products. Why? Their products can be used as freighters. Their products can be used to transfer things on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, whom everybody acknowledges has been complicit in terror. This amendment is very simple, and it is very clear.…
