The U.S. State Department should “expeditiously investigate” Huawei and other...

be violating Section 106 of the 2010 Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Accountability and Divestment Act, the legislators wrote in a Dec. 22 letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released last week. The law prohibits the federal government from entering into or renewing contracts with companies that export sensitive telecom tech to Iran. The State Department should “ensure taxpayer funds are not being used to support companies engaged in such activity,” the lawmakers said. The Department also should review whether telecom companies operating in Iran “are in violation of other U.S. government sanctions, such as those prohibiting companies from engaging in business with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.” Citing articles by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, the lawmakers said companies possibly in violation of U.S. law include: Huawei, Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Creativity Software and AdaptiveMobile Security. The lawmakers’ letter cites a media report that was “so fundamentally factually flawed” that Huawei issued a statement debunking the “misinformation,” a Huawei spokesman said. “It is very, very unfortunate that this letter was generated based on utter misinformation.” Huawei complies with all international laws and regulations, including U.N. and U.S. sanctions, he said. That includes the company’s business in Iran, he said. The company never sold anything to Iran “that was not built to global, commercial specifications” that are used by Huawei in all of the more than 140 markets it does business, and that are used by “virtually every vendor in our industry,” he said. Huawei decided in December to stop taking new business in Iran “but we will live up to our contractual obligations in terms of existing customers,” he said. The company “has never researched or developed or sold any monitoring or filtering technologies,” he said.