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Controversy has engulfed Munich-based Siemens AG in recent weeks, as allegations spread about the company’s involvement in supplying monitoring technologies to the government of Iran.  The connection between the German conglomerate and the massive-scale monitoring of individual communications by the Iranian government, in light of ongoing protests in Iran, was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.  In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung on June 24th, Green Party leader Claudia Roth decried the lack of concern for human rights in Iran by the joint venture Nokia Siemens.