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"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 Ekman & Company, which manufactures a paper product used in goods like diapers and sanitary napkins, to sell its products in Iran." (New York Times, "Licenses Granted to U.S. Companies Run the Gamut," 12/24/10)

Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted American Pulp and Paper 128 special licenses to do business in Iran. (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10)

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"This license authorized American Pulp and Paper to export wood pulp used for diapers to an Iranian company. According to the license, wood pulp was added by the United States Department of Agriculture to the list of allowable exportable agricultural commodities in 2001." (New York Times, "Licenses Granted to U.S. Companies Run the Gamut," 12/24/10)

Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted AirSep Corporation 27 special licenses to do business in Iran. (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10)

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"Helen Ying and Larry Hughes, who head AirSep's medical and industrial divisions, said the company had received licenses to sell products like an oxygen machine that effectively turns a room into an oxygen tent and central oxygen systems that supply entire hospitals. The company uses a middleman in Iran, whom Mr. Hughes declined to name for competitive reasons, to make the sales, and another company to do the installations. 'It's a hard way to do business,' he said." (New York Times, "Licenses Granted to U.S. Companies Run the Gamut," 12/24/10)

"Shanghai Sunry Petroleum Equipoment Company designs and sells oil and gas well service equipment. In 2005, the company exported equpiment to Iran, including swivel joints and valves. In 2009, the company was reportedly an exhibitor at Iran's international oil and gas show." (Mark Dubowitz and Laura Grossman, "Iran's Chinese Energy Partners," September 2010, p. 28)

"Kingdream states that it holds patents for drill bits in Iran, as well as the United States and Russia.... The company has supplied the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) wiht drill bits for its extraction activities.... In the United States, Kingdream lists Oklahoma-based HIJET Bit, Inc. as its American distributor." (Mark Dubowitz and Laura Grossman, "Iran's Chinese Energy Partners," September 2010, p. 27)

Alfa Laval is a Swedish technology company that provides industrial equipment for the energy, chemical, metal, food, and beverage industries. It has a strong US presence and had over $3.3 billion in revenue in 2009 (Company Annual Report). 

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Alfa Laval sells its products in Iran through an Iranian website, in addition to maintaing an office in Tehran (Iranian Website). Through this site, Alfa Laval makes available many products that have a known application in the nuclear energy industry. For example, Alfa Laval advertises the benefits of installing its plate heat exchangers in nuclear power plants.

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The company discloses in its annual report that it has paid at least $632,911 in salary to employees in Iran since 2007 (Company Annual Report)

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Alfa Laval's has deep commercial ties with the U.S. government. Since 2000, Alfa Laval has received over $40.4 million in US government contracts. $35.8 million of these contracts were awarded by the Department of Defense (USA Spending). 

According to its website, “KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the past century, providing industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance…In 2009, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 4.7 billion and approximately 34,000 employees” (Company website).
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Kone lists Saba as its authorized distributor in Iran. (Company website)

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“Saba Engineering Co. is the exclusive representative of all the production of KONE Co. in Iran and supplies all type of Elevator, Escalators, Auto walks and ramps.” (Iranian Distributor website)

Roctest is an industrial instrument company that describes itself as "a world lead[ing] manufacturer of high precision measuring and monitoring instrumentation for the civil engineering market and applications in the energy, healthcare and process control industries (Company Website). 

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Roctest also notes its "products are sold in more than 75 countries by direct sales and through an international distributor network" (Company Website). This distributor network includes Iran, where Roctest sells its products through the civil engineering equipment supplier Abzar-e-Khak (Company Website). 

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Abzar-e-Khak performs services for five Iranian government ministries, including the Ministry of Energy, in addition to private Iranian oil companies (Abzar-e-Khak Website). 

Parker Instrumentation Division is a division of parent company Parker Hannifin Corporation, who, according to its website, has annual sales of more than $10 billion and is “the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets” (Company Website).

On its page, Parker Instrumentation Division states that it “provides highly engineered flow control components and systems. These components range from basic compression fittings, pipe fittings, needle valves, ball valves, compact stream switching valves to modular fitting and valve packages" (Company Website).

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Parker Instrumentation is listed as an exhibitor in the 12th Oil Show in Iran, which took place in 2007 (Iran Oil Show Website).

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In 2003, Parker's Instrumentation Products Division-Europe announced that their products, including tube fittings, valves, regulators and hoses, had been contracted to make gas dispensers for Iran’s “national compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered public transport project.” "According to Parker Instrumentation, Hans Brochier is currently providing fuel dispensing systems for more than 40 filling stations at "key" high-traffic sites throughout the country, which will be used initially by a fleet of CNG-fueled buses. Following the initial phase of the project, Parker Instrumentation noted that Iran's Fuel Conservation Organization, which is spearheading the effort, "expects to extend CNG fueling availability more widely throughout the country via a further 100-plus filling stations...." "The breadth of Parker's product portfolio allowed us to provide a complete fluid flow solution for this CNG-dispensing product," said Parker Instrumentation territory manager Heiner Klinkmann. "Natural gas vehicles are a very fast-growing market, and Iran's groundbreaking application is a global showpiece for the performance of Parker's tube fitting and fluid flow components in this emerging high-pressure application sector" (Alternative Transportation Fuels Today, "Parker Provides Fluid Flow Components for Iranian CNG Scheme," December 9 2003).

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Iran is listed in a catalog of international distributors in a Parker Hannifin product manual ( Parker Hannifin Brochure).

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According to an industry publication, the U.S. manufacturer Parker Hannifin's European subsidiary, Parker's Instrumentation Products Division-Europe, announced in 2003 that its equipment would be used to supply Iranian compressed natural gas refueling stations. The company was selected by Hans Brochier GmbH & Company for a "contract to provide gas dispensers for Iran's nationwide compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered public transport project."