US Government Report on Iran Sanctions, Communications Technology

The Congress directed the GAO to “review issues related to Iran’s monitoring, filtering, and disruption of information and communications flows in two mandates: (1) Section 106 of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA) requires us to review a procurement ban against entities that export technologies to the Iranian government for monitoring, filtering, and disrupting informationandcommunicationsflows, and (2) Senate Report 111-201 related to the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 directs us to identify entities that have a financial interest in the development of Iran’s ability to monitor, filter, and disrupt information and communication flows and determine which entities have contracts with the U.S. government.”

The report is available for dowload here.