China's Huawei to limit business in Iran

Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies said it will cut back its operations in Iran, following allegations that Iranian police were using the company’s technology to track dissidents, The Wall Street Journal reported. Huawei announced that it will “voluntarily restrict its business development there by no longer seeking new customers and limiting its business activities with existing customers,” due to the “increasingly complex situation in Iran.” The company stated on its website that it will continue to provide necessary services for communication networks that have already been implemented or are in the process of being implemented. Mark Wallace, president of United Against Nuclear Iran, said, “This is a significant milestone. For the first time a major Chinese business is pulling back from Iran in the face of mounting international scorn for Iran’s brutal regime.” Wallace’s New York-based group had been privately pressuring Huawei to leave Iran for several weeks.