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  foksipayne1 month, 4 weeks ago

  Sanctions are intended in part to frustrate Iran's efforts to build its military, but the U.S. government's own figures showed at least $148,000 worth of unspecified weapons and other military gear were exported from the United States to Iran during Bush's time in office. That included $106,635 in military rifles and $8,760 in rifle parts and accessories shipped in 2004.

  The Bush administration looked into those shipments after AP questioned whether the U.S. really approved the export of military rifles to Iran. A review found the rifles and parts actually went to Iraq; the wrong country was entered on the shipping record, Treasury Department spokesman John Rankin said. The government will correct the data, he said.

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    foksipayne1 month, 4 weeks ago

    The remaining military gear is likely $33,000 in military apparel shipped to Iran under the humanitarian exemption to the trade sanctions, Rankin said.

    The government was also looking into U.S. records showing the export of at least $13,000 in "aircraft launching gear and/or deck arrestors," equipment needed to launch jets from aircraft carriers. Iran's navy is not believed to have carriers. It's likely the wrong commodity code was entered in the shipping record or the parts are for civilian aircraft and legal to export, Rankin said.

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  foksipayne1 month, 4 weeks ago

  The shipping trade ppl sure make some big mistakes entering codes. Or are they sure that it really was a code entry error. One would think they have the computer programmed to tell them that said item cannot be shipped to that place.

  On the other hand, maybe there is a hidden plan; we are selling them an awful lot of cigarettes.

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  tehranchik1 month, 4 weeks ago

  Guess it's about time we were honest about what WE do.

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