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Gottfert works in Iran through its partner, FaraSar Chimie Co. On FaraSar's website, Gottfert products are advertised. (FaraSar Website, "Products")

KBA MetalPrint works in Iran through its partner, Aran Afra Corp. (KBA MetalPrint Website, "Regional Contacts")

Bergrohr is a German company that manufactures large diameter steel pipes for high demanding applications such as energy infrastructures, off-shore wind parks, bridges, halls, and harbor constructions. (Bergrohr Website, "About Us")

Bergrohr has a branch office in Iran. (Matthias Kuntzel, "Who is Who in German Trade With Iran")

"The Persian Gulf country will buy two Ukrainian-made Antonov-158s, after a test flight of the aircraft earlier this month, Mohammad-Ali Sirati, managing director of the Iranian aircraft company, was cited as saying by the official Islamic Republic News Agency. The countries then will start to jointly build the aircraft next year, Sirati, whose company will be in charge of the project, said in Tehran yesterday. Some 30 percent of each plane will be made in Iran, state-run media reported." (Business Week, "Iran Says Antonov-158 Built With Ukraine May Fly in 2013," 10/6/2011)

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Antonov lists on its website that their AN-24 turboprop aircraft is serially produced at HESA plant in Isfahan, Iran. (Antonov website)

"This license authorized the company to complete the sale and delivery of Mexican-origin goods, the precise nature of which OFAC redacted, to China, even though the goods had been shipped via the Iranian government-owned shipping line known as Irisl. Irisl has since been designated as an entity involved in helping the Iranian regime obtain technology it needs for its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. The license also allowed the bank that issued the letter of credit for the sale, HSBC, to make good on its obligations. In granting the license, OFAC wrote that Cometals had advised the agency that it was subject to large daily fees for every day that the vessel was not unloaded as well as possible financial claims from the Chinese customer for failing to deliver the goods. OFAC granted the license 'in order to enable Cometals to avoid significant financial loss,' it said. While OFAC was under no obligation to grant this license given that it involved an Iranian entity, OFAC's director, Adam J. Szubin, stressed that Irisl was not added to a special United States blacklist of proliferators until five years after this license was issued. Up until then, he said case-by-case exceptions were made in cases like this one in which the company did not know that an Iranian entity was involved when it entered into the transaction, and in which granting the license did not involve a direct payment from a United States person or company to an Iranian entity." (New York Times, "Licenses Granted to U.S. Companies Run the Gamut," 12/24/10)

"'U.S. government officials with intelligence and border security responsibilities' contacted Alcoa in January 2006 to advise the company of a continuing investigation stemming from the belief that one of its customers in Turkey was acting as a purchasing agent on behalf of the government of Iran, records show. The investigation was never publicly reported, but as a result of this notification, Libby Archell, an Alcoa spokeswoman, said scheduled deliveries to that customer were halted and the customer was notified that no additional shipments would be forthcoming. A license was needed, however, so that Alcoa could refund the customer for goods that had been paid for but not yet shipped "in order to avoid litigation and attendant discovery," the license application states.

It is unclear what product Alcoa had been shipping to the Turkish customer; OFAC redacted that information, and Ms. Archell declined to say. She said that Alcoa was 'completely unaware' and had no way of knowing that its customer was acting as a front for the Iranian government until the United States government informed the company of its investigation. The company uses an 'extremely thorough due dilligence process' to vet potential customers, she said, adding that the customer in question was not at the time on the government's blacklist of sanctioned parties." (New York Times, "Licenses Granted to U.S. Companies Run the Gamut," 12/24/10)

Remet is accused of selling Cobalt aluminate to Iranian engineering firm Mavadkaran, which manufactures equipment for Iran’s energy sector.

Although the company’s former sales manager, Jarrad Beddow, claims that there was no law prohibiting the export of the cobalt when it occurred in 2009, it is well know that cobalt aluminate can be used to produce the lethal radioactive isotope cobalt 60. Experts says this material is most likely to be used in a “dirty bomb.” And, Since 2005, there have been reports that Tehran may be attempting to procure dirty bomb materials.

(Global Security Newswire, "U.K Firm Investigated Over Sale of Dirty Bomb Material to Iran," 5/17/2010)

AMETEK, according to its website, is a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, with 11,000 colleagues working at more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 80 sales and service centers in the US and across the world.

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Lloyd Instruments, an AMETEK subsidiary based in the United Kingdom, manufactures material testing machines, texture analyzers, and davenport polymer test equipment, and lists a regional contact in Iran.  (Company Website)

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Another subsidiary, Denmark-based AMETEK Calibration Instruments, also has an office in Iran. The company is a manufacturer of instruments that calibrate temperature, pressure and process signals as well as temperature sensors. (Company Website)

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The devices of AMETEK Calibration Instruments are used in the oil & gas industry, among others. (Company Website)

The Duferco Group's Iranian Branch, Kemco AG (Company Website)

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"The list of about 1,000 Italian companies active in Iran includes such household names as Eni—the energy giant is Iran's biggest business partner in Europe according to the Italian-Iranian Chamber of Commerce—as well as Fiat, Ansaldo, Maire Tecnimont, Danieli and Duferco." (Wall Street Journal, "The Rome-Tehran Axis," January 2010)

"The list of about 1,000 Italian companies active in Iran includes such household names as Eni—the energy giant is Iran's biggest business partner in Europe according to the Italian-Iranian Chamber of Commerce—as well as Fiat, Ansaldo, Maire Tecnimont, Danieli and Duferco." (Wall Street Journal, The Rome-Tehran Axis, 1/14/2010)

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"Italy's Danieli & Company has been awarded the job of setting up a big facility in Khuzestan to build steel sheet for oil and gas pipelines. The $232 million contract signed on 25 October requires a separate financing deal being negotiated with Mediocredito Centrale." (MEED, "Iran: Danieli Steel Contract awaits Finance Line." 1999)