[Deutsche Welle-Germany] German police have arrested a man they say was exporting equipment to Iran that could be used for missile-building. German federal prosecutors identified the man on Saturday as Mohsen A., 52. They were also investigating two others. All are accused of selling a sintering furnace, used to weld metal parts at extremely high temperatures, to Iran in 2007. Such equipment can be used to build long-range missile launching components, and German law forbids their export to Iran, which is under a UN embargo. Prosecutors said that in July 2008, the group was in the process of exporting a second furnace to a front company in Asia that would have sent it on to Iran.
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