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"We don't want technology to go to Iran, regardless of whether it will be used militarily or by civilian businesses."
KENNETH WEINSTEIN, former U.S. assistant attorney general for national security, in a statement as federal agents investigate whether a helicopter they have held for 14 months at an airport in Texas was earmarked for shipment to Iran
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