> They're trying to keep Iranian contributors out of the code base because they fear the Iranian government can lean on him to plant malicious code. That doesn

> They're trying to keep Iranian contributors out of the code base because they fear the Iranian government can lean on him to plant malicious code. That doesn't quite explain why you don't even have read access in Iran though: > Through Iran’s IP range, you cannot even clone a simple project from GitLab or pull the Nginx image from Docker Hub or Google Container Registry!