Your April 11 editorial expresses concern over the “watering down” of the Iran Non P roliferation Act (INA), which prohibits NASA from procuring any Russian hardware for the international space station. But this assumes the INA is having its intended effect. In fact it has accomplished nothing. And that’s hardly surprising since it clearly requires Russia to stop the sale by “any person” of any “goods, services, or technology” that could potentially contribute to weapons development in Iran.
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