Iran using Chinese companies as fronts to buy nuclear equipment in the US

Tuesday's indictment in New York of a Chinese company on charges of attempting to procure nuclear equipment for Iran is apparently just the tip of the iceberg, according to a German industrialist who spoke to a conference by the Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington on Tuesday. Ralf Wirtz, whose company, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, makes pumps that can be used in uranium enrichment centrifuges,