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Oh. So That’s Why Boeing Wanted the Iran Deal.
by Eli Lake
June 23, 2016

Almost a year after the Iran nuclear deal, we’re getting a clearer picture of the coalition of activists who fought for the agreement, sparring with the “warmongers” in Congress. It is a broad coalition. There are, of course, the peace activists and arms-control experts, who were vocal in support of the deal. There were also quieter members of this campaign, like the corporation that makes the B-52 bomber and the V-22 Osprey. The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff reports that a former Boeing vice president and senior State Department official, Thomas Pickering, lobbied hard for the Iran deal while cashing checks as a consultant for the aerospace giant. Yet when Pickering wrote op-eds and signed public letters urging approval of the Iran agreement, he often neglected to mention his previous and ongoing connections to Boeing. READ MORE

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