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The article suggests she took US-made products and routed them to Iran through Huawei. That's a US crime, and the US can issue a warrant for her arrest, and if she shows up in a country with extradition to the US, she can get arrested. Which is apparently what happened.

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This only works one way though. No one arrested Ronald Regan for selling guns to the contras to fund the revolution in Iran. The US gets to do this because might makes right.

Indeed it does.

And for the sake of humanity let's hope the US is never beholden to Chinese whims.

The US did, in fact, arrest the arms salesmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokers_of_Death_arms_case

Regean had sovereign immunity, so he could not be personally tried.

> Regean had sovereign immunity, so he could not be personally tried. Sounds fair. Arrest businessmen because it's practical, don't arrest Regean because it won't look good

He also had dementia

I just learned, thanks Wikipedia, that Jamal Khashoggi (journalist murdered in Turkey) who has recently been dominating the news is the nephew of the arms dealer king pen, Adnan Khashoggi, behind the Brokers of Death. It appears Adnan and our current US president have had a prior business relationship (according to Wikipedia).

That is a strange closed loop.

A good lesson about the value of networking. Similar things are all over the politics, business or even arts and people inclined to believe in conspiracies love to dig these but most of the time it's just the effect of having a way to meet people that are already in.

Why don't they arrest US citizens who sold those US products instead?

Because the actual crime was the act of selling the tech to Iran.

Huh - I always assumed that extradition treaties only applied to people traveling on passports of the relevant country.

Your assumption was incorrect. Were you trying to imply something? If so, I didn't understand the implication.

In case you were wondering why you were downvoted (as I used to be), generally one (of the few) good thing about this forum is that personal opinions that don't add value arent encouraged.

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