I'M SHOCKED, SHOCKED – AT 10:29 A.M. ET:  You mean, Iran is not playing it straight with us?  I can't believe that.  From the Washington Free Beacon: 

The Obama administration has given clearance to Western airline manufacturers to sell planes to Iran at the same time the Islamic Republic is using commercial airliners to smuggle weapons and other illicit arms to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, according to new intelligence and congressional communications obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The disclosure of this new intelligence, which shows that Iran has been using its commercial airline company to smuggle advanced weaponry to Hezbollah and terrorists operating in Syria, has placed renewed focus on a congressional inquiry that has been stymied by Obama administration officials since early October.

Senators, led by Sen. David Perdue (R., Ga.), have been pushing Obama administration officials to explain why they are helping airline manufacturers Boeing and AirBus sell planes to Iran, despite clear evidence that Tehran is using its commercial airline as cover for its continued terrorist operations across the region.

As with multiple other congressional investigations into the Obama administration’s efforts to roll back economic sanctions and conduct secret dealings with Iran, officials have stonewalled Perdue, refusing to answer key questions about the motivation for aiding Tehran’s pursuit of planes that could be used to further its terrorist enterprise.

COMMENT:  Money talks.  Those aircraft contracts are worth a mint.  Airbus has already gotten a large contract from Iran. 

Perdue is correct and courageous, but I suspect the Iranians will get the planes they want, either from Europe or America.  It's like selling scrap metal to Japan right before World War II.  It came back to us in other forms.

November 25,  2016