'Berlin's attitude on Iran contrasts with historical lessons'

By BENNY WEINTHAL
The disclosure in mid-December that the German engineering giant Siemens purportedly sold the Iranian regime technology for its nuclear weapons and missile program is the most recent example of the flourishing, and largely unregulated, German-Iranian trade relationship.
Siemens is said to have used its Swedish subsidiary to transfer nuclear weapons equipment to the value of $23 million to Iran. Der Spiegel reported that the turbo compressors can be used for Iran's missile program.
A second revelation of German-Iranian trade involved the British Navy's confiscation of sophisticated automatic computer technology designed for the operation of Iranian nuclear power plants.
The infamous Nokia deal, a Siemens-Finnish joint-venture, which supplied surveillance equipment to the Iranian regime, hurt Siemens' reputation abroad but the company continues unabated to trade with Iran. The high-tech monitoring technology can be used to track air flight movements and telecommunications between Israel and Iran.
In June, the tracking technology was used to stifle Internet, cellular, Twitter, and land-line communications among pro-democracy Iranian demonstrators.
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