Nokia complicit in Iranian repression

"The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime.

Wholesale vendors in the capital report that demand for Nokia handsets has fallen by as much as half in the wake of calls to boycott Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for selling communications monitoring systems to Iran.

There are signs that the boycott is spreading: consumers are shunning SMS messaging in protest at the perceived complicity with the regime by the state telecoms company, TCI. Iran's state-run broadcaster has been hit by a collapse in advertising as companies fear being blacklisted in a Facebook petition. There is also anecdotal evidence that people are moving money out of state banks and into private banks." The Guardian

This is great news. Guerrilla protest action at its most effective. And the best news out of Iran I've heard in days.

I totally support a boycott of Nokia and Siemens. This should be spread worldwide. Any commercial organisation that collaborated with the Iranian regime that has murdered and tortured protestors should be shunned.

If Iranians can do it, we can.