Preventing Iran aircraft deal to be costly for US: Lawyer

The US House of Representatives has voted to block the sale of 200 aircraft to Iran in a move to counter Treasury Department’s September decision to grant Boeing and Airbus permission to sell the passenger planes. During the Thursday vote, US legislators banned banks from transacting 25 billion dollars which Boeing has signed with Iran. Representative Jim Himes said denying the sale to Iran could prevent the creation of 100,000 jobs in the United States.

Edward Corrigan, an international lawyer, told Press TV that the vote against selling aircraft to Iran would inflict internal and global costs on the United States.

“The world sees that the United States is wishy-washy, they (American officials) can’t honor their international agreements and of course that does have a negative impact on the United States around the world but especially in the Muslim world and much of the third world and of course within Iran itself,” Corrigan said.

“This is going to cost of course the United States a lot of jobs” because “to lose 25 billion dollars with the contracts is going to cost Boeing tons of money and I think the unions and the workers are there and the company will start to put forward strong lobby effort to say we can’t afford to lose this contract,” he added.

According to Corrigan, Iran would go to third countries like France or Britain or Russia or China to acquire the aircraft it needs.  

The analyst further said the Israeli lobby also wants to create as much problems as possible for the United States and Iran because of its own interests.

“It is a lot of political posturing in that they have consistently taken a position opposed to the nuclear agreement with Iran. They’re still talking about imposing sanctions against Iran even though that’s part of the agreement to drop the sanctions.”

Washington’s policies against Tehran, he said, continue “to poison the relationship between Iran and the United States” because there are “a lack of accurate information that American public has - even American politicians have - on Iran.”

US Republicans say they are planning to impose more sanctions against Iran, a move that the Obama administration has advised against as it would amount to a breach of a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers.

Iranian officials have warned the US against walking away from the nuclear agreement, stressing that the US is bound to honor the deal as it has been endorsed by a United Nations Security Council resolution, which makes it effectively an international law.

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