Congress Members Confront French Company Over Iranian Weapons

Berlin—In separate efforts, Republican congressmen Mike Conaway and Peter King have confronted the world’s third largest shipping company—the French-owned CMA CGM—for enabling Iranian arms to be smuggled aboard container ships. Some of the intended recipients of Iranian arms include the terrorist entity Hamas and perhaps other pro-Iranian regime states in Africa.

In a letter, Conaway urges Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to clamp down on CMA CGM for its failure to adhere to international counterterrorism standards on the high seas.