![]() On a near-annual basis for three years now, the Departments of Treasury and State have rewritten the rules on technology exports to Iran. The second level is the entangling set of risk-management decisions which those, tasked with complying with those laws, must address and undertake. ![]() The first and best-known are the laws and executive orders adopted by the US Government. There are two levels of US sanctions against Iran. It is a story about how US corporations are imposing stringent sanctions against technology and the provision of information services to the Islamic Republic. This is a story about how American technology companies - not the Iranian political system - are reducing Iranian access to the web. Last month, international outlets and Persian-language social media were abuzz with the news that Facebook and Twitter had been unblocked in Iran.īut that temporary “unblocking”, likely the result of technological failure than a sudden political u-turn, overshadowed a more complex story about Iranian access to the internet.
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