Lawmakers Ask State Department to Probe Huawei Business With Iran

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BY STEVE STECKLOW

Six U.S. lawmakers have asked the State Department to investigate whether Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. has violated U.S. sanctions on Iran by supplying it with sensitive communications technology that has been used for censorship.

The lawmakers called on the department to "expeditiously investigate" whether Huawei violated U.S. sanctions passed by Congress in 2010 by providing technology to government-controlled telecoms that "has been used to restrict the speech of the Iranian people and the free flow of unbiased information in Iran." The law prohibits the federal government from contracting with companies that export to Iran technology that can be ...

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