Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 29, 2009 @03:31PM from the no-cookies-for-you dept.

fast66 writes "After hearing about Nokia-Siemens sale of Internet-monitoring software to Iran, US Senators Schumer and Graham want to bar them from receiving federal contracts. They planned the action after hearing about a joint venture of Nokia Corp. of Finland and Siemens AG of Germany that sold a sophisticated Internet-monitoring system to Iran in 2008. According to Nextgov.com, Schumer and Graham's bill would require the Obama administration to identify foreign companies that export sensitive technology to Iran and ban them from bidding on federal contracts, or renew expiring ones, unless they first stop exports to Iran."

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Re:Because Cisco would never do such a thing by SquirrelsUnite · 2009-06-29 16:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

But government is evil.
Re:First uncensored post by sigxcpu · 2009-06-29 18:46 · Score: 1, Redundant

The idea is not to punish Iran, it's to punish Nokia Siemens.
The US has an embargo on Iran and Nokia Siemens broke it.
(BTW it's one company, not two.)

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