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Dell has admitted it violated United States sanctions against Iran.
The company has filed an IRANNOTICE and explained the violation in its latest Form 10Q.
The violation is not serious because the United States' sanctions are very broad, covering "goods, services, technology, information, or support" that could in any way help the nation to develop its petroleum resources. Forget doing anything that could help Iran go nuclear, too.
[...] Dell's violations occurred outside Iran: the 10Q reports that in the first half of 2016 the company sold "desktop computers, computer stands, and a server, and associated warranty support" to the Iranian embassies in Germany and France. The transactions secured "net revenue of approximately 4,998 Euros and realized net profits of approximately 1,231 Euros from the three sales."
[...] Dell's since dissolved those deals and won't provide further support.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:28PM
This is around $6,000 worth of hardware and support, depending on the exchange rate.
This isn't exactly IBM and the holocaust" [wikipedia.org] level of technology profiteering by helping oppressive countries do terrible things. This isn't like setting up Iran's nuclear program [npr.org] level of helping troublesome countries gain dangerous technology.
Well ... not profiteering, no. But what will $3000 buy you in terms of hardware today that will allow an oppressive country to do terrible things? It's not like terribleness or Uranium has kept up with Moore's law.
Maybe the quality of support you get for the other $3000 has degraded so much in the last 80 years that it cancels out Moore's law on $3000 in hardware. I'm going with that.