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In the past I worked for an Israeli company listed on a US stock exchange. They were proud that they had customers in virtually every corner of the world, and h
by names_are_hard 6y ago
In the past I worked for an Israeli company listed on a US stock exchange. They were proud that they had customers in virtually every corner of the world, and had just six countries they couldn't do business in. One (Lebanon) because of the Israeli government, and five (including Iran) because of the US.
Most interesting to me: apparently when they first went public and became subject to US regulation they had to close quite a large number of customer accounts in Iran.
- freehunter 6y agoIt’s interesting to me that the US views Iran more harshly than Israel does.
- mcny 6y agoIran, Israel, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... There is so much going on there. Are they all at conflict with one another? Who are allies? How does this work?
- Fuzzwah 6y agoOn a long enough time scale, everyone is the bad guy.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIsrael is an ally of the KSA against Iran, though they both pretend not to be for domestic consumption. They are indeed both in conflict with one another, because in truth Iran is really the only country in the Middle East that could threaten to become an independent power, on the level of say, Turkey.
- RedComet 6y agoIt doesn't, the US is just Israel's proxy warrior in this fight. (cf. the Clean Break memo, etc)
- markdown 6y ago> just Israel's proxy warrior in this fight That's a charitable way to put it.