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With the irony being that the only ever country to use nuclear weapons is enforcing something on the only ever country to receive those weapons, in the name of nuclear weapon control.

Really? I thought the vendors just can't sell to Iran, not that they have to build in lockouts that enforce compliance by their customers.

According to the thread the story is taken from, the machines are now under the purview of ITAR: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/dmg-mori-gildemeister-m...

Manufacturers of ITAR controlled devices typically have to enforce compliance by their customers. If there's a method to enforce compliance and it isn't present, the manufacturer can be held responsible for the export. Some things (such as mirrors for lasers) can't really be enforced while others (large machines, aircraft) can be.

Iran is in another corner of the installed workroom?