The latest export of U.S. dual-use components to Iran was disclosed on May 13. A Taiwan national pleaded guilty in a federal district court in Miami to conspiring to illegally export circular hermetic connectors as well as glass-to-metal seals to Teheran.
"As you know, we cannot tell USA this connector is for you," the defendant, Yi Lan Chen was quoted as telling an unidentified Iranian representative in an e-mail in August 2009.