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11 Feb 2010

Author:
Jonathan Fildes, BBC News

MEPs condemn Nokia Siemens 'surveillance tech' in Iran

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Euro MPs have "strongly" criticised telecoms firm Nokia Siemens Networks for providing "surveillance technology" to the Iranian authorities. In a resolution adopted on Wednesday, the MEPs said the hardware was instrumental in the "persecution and arrests of Iranian dissidents"…Nokia Siemens said the technology that it had installed was similar to that used "in all EU member states and the US"…Nokia Siemens told BBC News that it had provided "very basic surveillance" capabilities to Iran Telecom in 2008…Details of Nokia Siemens activities in Iran first came to light in June 2009 when media reports accused the firm of helping the Iranian government intercept communications…