Originally Posted by
WHBM
If the USA doesn't like their products being sold overseas then tell Boeing and others not to offer them for export. You can't have it both ways.
According to whom?
It is certainly the case that no-one
has to import Boeing (or other US) products, if they don't like the strings attached. But (to use your words) the
buyers cannot have it both ways either.
Caveat emptor.
I am sure both Iran and Venezuela were (or should have been) well-aware that this aircraft would be "in play" as contraband, under the circumstances of sanctions and other US law. Had either one kept it within their own jurisdiction, the US would not have had any opportunity to re-claim it.
Venezuela made the mistake of sending it into a jurisdiction (Argentina) that is generally speaking (post-dictatorship) a US ally, and was willing to accede to a US diplomatic request for seizure.
BTW - I do understand the UK's own sometimes-strained relations with Argentina, and supported the UK's "re-claiming" of the Falklands by force (as did the US overall) 40 years ago.