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Can someone who is a lawyer comment on this, please? edit: further.. how is Signal shielded (if at all) from providing services to anyone in Iran? Wouldn't the

• iudqnolq 6y ago
  > Executive order 13722, signed by President Donald Trump in 2016, prohibits U.S. persons from exporting services to *North Korea*. Edit: You might find GitHub's description of how they handle this interesting: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/ https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...
• nulbyte 6y ago
  Not a lawyer, but details of the sanctions are public[1], including Iran General License D-1 which covers services, software, and hardware incident to personal communications. The license has details for fee based and generally public free-of-charge services. We want Iranians to be free to communicate.[2] [1]: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/iran-sanctions https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/... [2]: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0322 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0322