House Passes Measure to Stop Sale of Boeing Aircraft to Iran

(AP-ABC News) Richard Lardner - The U.S. House of Representatives by voice vote Thursday approved measures aimed at blocking U.S. companies from selling commercial passenger aircraft to Tehran. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), the amendment's sponsor, said, "To give these types of planes to the Iranian regime, which still is the world's largest state sponsor of terror, is to give them a product that can be used for a military purpose."


2016-07-08 00:00:00

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