Where did Iran get the technology to do this? Nokia Siemens.

The Washington Times reported in April that Nokia Siemens Networks had sold Iran’s telecom company a “monitoring center.” The product’s promotional material says the center can sort and catalogue phone calls, e-mails and other Web communications. The portion of the business that deals with the monitoring center was sold at the end of March to a private German holding company, but the bad publicity has caused potential problems for Siemens business in the U.S.