The external situation, and whether you agree or disagree about Iran, has no impact on whether or not it was illegal. The company traded tech with the US under

The external situation, and whether you agree or disagree about Iran, has no impact on whether or not it was illegal. The company traded tech with the US under an agreement not to share said tech with sanctioned countries. They then proceeded in an apparent act of circumventing those trade agreements. If they didn't like the sanctions against Iran then they shouldn't have been dealing with the US tech for which those sanctions applied in the first place. Your argument is like saying "it's not theft because the person they were stealing from is a bad person" which isn't how the law works.