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“A Bloomberg Markets investigation has found that Koch Industries -- in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East -- has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism. Internal company documents show that the company made those sales through foreign subsidiaries, thwarting a U.S. trade ban… Cohlmia says Koch fired the employees and sales agents involved in the illicit payments and strengthened internal controls. Regarding sales to Iran, she wrote, ‘During the relevant time frame covered in your article, U.S. law allowed foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational companies to engage in trade involving countries subject to U.S. trade sanctions, including Iran, under certain conditions.’ Koch has since stopped all of its units from trading with Iran, she says… Internal company records show that Koch Industries used its foreign subsidiary to sidestep a U.S. trade ban barring American companies from selling materials to Iran. Koch-Glitsch offices in Germany and Italy continued selling to Iran until as recently as 2007, the records show. The company’s products helped build a methanol plant for Zagros Petrochemical Co., a unit of Iran’s state-owned National Iranian Petrochemical Co., the documents show.” (Bloomberg, "Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales," 10/3/2011)

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"The trading with Iran involved Koch subsidiaries in Germany and Italy providing key components for a huge state-owned petro-chemical plant, despite a U.S. ban on trade with Iran since 1995."(ABC News,"Report: 'Secret Sins' of Koch Industries," 10/7/2011)

“Wireless equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks Inc broke a two-month drought in the U.S. IPO market on Thursday pricing shares in its initial public offering at the low end of the expected range… Ubiquiti, whose shares will trade on Nasdaq under the stock symbol UBNT.O, makes wireless networking and video surveillance equipment. It said in its prospectus that certain of its products were sold to Iran, Cuba, Syria, the Sudan and North Korea and that some of its encryption components were sold without the appropriate export authorization… A review of Ubiquiti's sales to Iran by the Department of Commerce's Office of Export Enforcement earlier this year resulted in a warning letter, but no criminal or administrative prosecution or other penalties -- but Ubiquiti remains under review by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.” (Reuters, "Ubiquiti breaks US IPO drought amid Iran controversy," 10/13/2011)

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"UBNT believes its products have been sold into Iran by third parties." (Seeking Alpha, "IPO Preview: Ubiquiti Networks," 10/7/2011)

"A city-based advocacy group today asked the Warwick hotel to reverse its decision to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his delegation during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) sent a letter to the hotel requesting it refuse to shelter the Iranian leader when he arrives September 19. 'By this letter, UANI requests that the Warwick immediately reconsider its decision and deny accommodation for and refuse to host President Ahmadinejad,' UANI President Mark D. Wallace, who was formerly the US Ambassador to the UN, wrote in the letter. The Warwick declined a NewsCore request for comment on the matter and would not confirm it had agreed to host Ahmadinejad during his stay. 'By choosing to host the Iranian delegation, the Warwick is accepting blood money from a regime that presents an overwhelming threat to global security,' Wallace wrote. 'By turning a blind eye to the regime's flagrant violations of human rights, support for al-Qaeda and its commitment to an illegal nuclear weapons program, the Warwick is once again facilitating Ahmadinejad's misuse of UNGA for the purposes of disseminating propaganda of an illegitimate and brutal dictatorship that flouts international law.'" (New York Post. "Advocacy group asks hotel to reconsider hosting Ahmadinejad," 9/15/11)

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's six nights in New York featured a secret sit-down with militant minister Louis Farrakhan, heckling in a hotel bar, and a fear of being rubbed out that bordered on paranoia. The president shared a hush-hush meal with Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party Tuesday at the Warwick Hotel on West 54th Street. The meeting of the podium smackers took place in a banquet room, where the fiery leaders presumably exchanged theories on what's wrong with the world. (New York Post. "A'Jad's monster's ball," 9/26/10)

• Danaher Corporation is a major American manufacturing company with revenues of $12.7 billion as of 2008. Danaher manufactures tools and products for industrial, medical, engineering, and other high-tech applications (Company Website). One of its largest foreign subsidiaries, Linx Printing Technologies, has distribution in Iran, and products from two of its US subsidiaries, Tektronix and Fluke Corporation, are available for sale in Iran through the website of the Iranian company "Test Iran."
• Linx's Iranian distributor, Karyaran Pars Engineering Company, Ltd., “is the exclusive representative of Linx Printing Technologies, PLC,” in Iran, dealing in the sale, supply and technical support of ink-jet printers.  The website also states that the company supports more than 1000 Linx machines it has installed in the country. Some of Karyaran's clientele include Pars Oil Co., Behran Oil Co., Bandar Imam Petroleum Co. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the state-owned National Iranian Petroleum Company - NPC), and Razi Chemical Co. (also a wholly-owned subsidiary of NPC), among other Iranian chemical and industrial companies. (Karyaran Pars Engineering Co. Website) 
• “Test Iran” offers three types of Tektronix oscilloscope models (2215, TDS2024, 475) as well as a Tektronix TDS2CMAX Communication Module (Test Iran website). Notably, Tektronix has a strong relationship with the U.S. government (Tektronix website). For example, in August 2009, Tektronix won a $10.8 million contract to manufacture “5,000 oscilloscopes to support the US Navy’s general purpose electronic test equipment (GPETE) weapons system” (Defense Industry Daily. “Tektronix to Supply 5,000 Oscilloscopes for US Navy Test Equipment,” 8/29/10). Problematically, Tektronix oscilloscopes were used in the development of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program in the 1980s and 1990s. In one example, Gary Milhollin, a UANI board member, notes in a 1992 New York Times article that Tektronix high-speed oscilloscopes, “needed to develop firing circuits for nuclear weapons and for nuclear tests,” were previously sold to Iraq (Gary Milhollin, “Building Saddam Hussein’s Bomb,” The New York Times,” 3/8/92). In 1991, two Iranian citizens were arrested in the US for selling unlicensed portable oscilloscopes to Iran.
• “Test Iran” sells several Fluke products, including multimeters, ampere meters, calibration equipment and an oscilloscope model, the Fluke 190 Series Portable Color Digital Scopemeter (Test Iran website). In 2006 it was reported that Iran had purchased dual use goods, such as Fluke Corporation equipment, through a Turkish trading firm (WMD Insights. “Iran exploited Turkish trading firm to produce dual-use goods from Western European, U.S. companies,” July/August 2006). Notably, Fluke has extensive business relations with the U.S. government. U.S. federal government customers include the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Department of the Treasury, Homeland Security, Department of Defense, White House and many other major U.S. federal governmental institutions. Fluke also works with all 50 state government, over 400 country governments and over 250 city governments (Fluke Networks website, “Government Solutions”).

Eaton Corporation is a diversified power management company, specializing in hydraulics and industrial equipment for the manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, and energy industries. It had 2009 sales of $11.9 billion, with 70,000 employees spanning a market of 150 countries (Company Website). 

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Eaton acquired Vickers, a hydraulics manufacturer, in 1999. Vickers equipment is sold in Iran through distributor Hydraulic Karan. Hydraulic Karan features photographs of Vickers equipment taken as recently as 2007.

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Eaton has received over $2 billion in US government contracts over the past decade.

Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted Masimo Corporation 10 special licenses to do business in Iran. (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10)

Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted Mallinckrodt Pharmaceutical Company 11 special licenses to do business in Iran. (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10)

Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted Johnson & Johnson 11 special licenses to do business in Iran. (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10)

Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted Zoll Medical Corporation 13 special licenses to do business in Iran. (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10)

Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted Hill-Rom Company 12 special licenses to do business in Iran. (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10)