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Who's selling Iran the gear to spy on its own people?

Photo by Hapal via Flickr Creative Commons

Late last week, an investigative reportfrom Reuters’ Enterprise Team uncovered the details of a big money contract between the Chinese telecommunications equipment company ZTE and the Telecommunication Company of Iran that included technology that can be used to conduct surveillance and crack down on dissidents. The details of the deal revealed surprising end-runs being made by Iran around global sanctions. Steve Stecklow is the investigative reporter who uncovered the story…and he’s on the line to unpack it for us, and to tell us about ZTE's new claim of curtailingits Iran business in the wake of his investigation.

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