Over 100 years ago Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, predicted "the capitalists will sell us the rope which we will use to hang them."  That insight into the thinking of immoral leaders when dealing with essentially moral and/or naive counterparts sprang to mind when I read in Asharq Al-Awsat,  an Arab paper published in London, US Treasury approves sale of aircraft parts to Tehran A spokesman for US-based Boeing said Friday that it had received approval to sell aircraft parts to Iran, as part of the partial easing of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic agreed in the interim nuclear deal last November. The spokesman, representing the world’s largest aircraft company, said Boeing had been issued a license by the US Treasury department to sell parts needed to ensure the safety of the aircraft. (snip) The last plane Boeing sold to the country, a 747-100, was delivered three months before the 1979 hostage crisis that...(Read Full Post)