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These kind of policies don't have the Iran government as target, they target Iran citizens. By making the lives of Iran citizens miserable, the US government e
by akagusu 5y ago
These kind of policies don't have the Iran government as target, they target Iran citizens.
By making the lives of Iran citizens miserable, the US government expects the Iran citizens to go against their government.
If citizens put enough pressure on the Iran government and go rebel against it, the US government can justify a military intervention to protect "human rights" or something like that.
It's the same Cold War playbook over and over again.
- sebow 5y agoYeah, maybe. Or maybe the vast majority of people in Iran, NK, Syria, etc. rarely have internet access and these embargoes are plain 'war-time' embargoes.These measures that affect the population effectively affect the government aswell, it's an _entire_ country embargo, not the population/gov one. By the way i find it amusing that we're talking only about 'it/tech'. Every product/service that an outsider tries to sell to these countries is bound by these rules, not just virtual products. While i understand OP's feelings,what I still don't understand is why he's surprised about this: it has not been happening since yesterday(more like 5+ years, but only recently all major tech companies implemented their compliance w/ them)
- PoignardAzur 5y agoAnd they believe it works. During the recent Cuban protests, republican pointed towards the fact that some protesters were waving american flags as a proof that the cuban government was Satan and any measure was justified in trying to bring them down. Anybody pointing out that US sanctions were responsible for a fair share of the suffering of these protesters was denounced as a commie sympathizer.