He said, I want to import lead pencils for the Iraqi school children, but I'm not allowed to do it because of U.S. sanctions. You know that Sanctions are not only against military equipment, but they're against what's called dual use equipment. So civilian equipment like a truck that could be used for the military. He said, so the Americans have decided that this pencil is dual use because the lead that's inside the pencil could be somehow extracted. (1:04:34–1:04:41)
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Asserts that U.S. sanctions target dual-use equipment, not just military equipment.
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