Nobel prizewinner Shirin Ebadi,...said that some western technology companies are helping the government and called for international economic sanctions..."It's clearly the case with Siemens and Nokia when they send the Iranian state software and technology that it can use to monitor mobile telephone calls and text messages,"...The Nokia Siemens Network has insisted that it is not capable of bugging calls or spying on the Internet...However, in June 2009 NSN told the BBC that it sold a product called the Monitoring Centre to Iran Telecom in the second half of 2008. This technology can monitor any communications across a network...Nokia Siemens Network spokesperson, Ben Roome... [said] “We are, of course, aware of reports from Iran, and condemn any abuse of communication technologies that may have taken place...”