https://www.cnet.com/news/zte-may-lose-android-licensing-from-google-report-says/

ZTE's has been playing the US market on hard mode in recent months, but now it's looking more like mission impossible.

After ZTE was caught shipping goods to Iran, the US Commerce Department on Monday banned US companies from selling hardware and software to the Chinese electronics company for seven years. Now, a source tells Reuters this could preclude Google for licensing its Android operating system to ZTE.