<story><title>Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?</title><url>https://github.com/armancodes/laravel-download-link/pull/9#issuecomment-683417436</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alir3z4</author><text>I never knew about such law.
For those who have Pikachu eyes now, or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment, I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions imposed by US on Iran and Iranian national globally and you&amp;#x27;d see how you&amp;#x27;ll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s #metoo movement for this, put me and other +85 million Iranians in it.&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-customer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>&amp;gt;or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment&lt;p&gt;To be fair, who knows what the &amp;#x27;thumbs down&amp;#x27; emoji is meant to represent in context and probably varies from each person who flagged it as such. It could mean &amp;#x27;boo maintainer&amp;#x27;, or it could be &amp;#x27;boo to the law and circumstance&amp;#x27;. It&amp;#x27;s just an emoji.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions&lt;p&gt;Yeah. That&amp;#x27;s the reality. Like you imply, it&amp;#x27;s not the maintainer&amp;#x27;s fault. He&amp;#x27;s just trying to do the best he can in a situation that he doesn&amp;#x27;t control. Just as an American would if they found themselves in a situation that could intentionally be interpreted as breaking sanctions.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;you&amp;#x27;d see how you&amp;#x27;ll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what that has to do with anything, though you are overstating it. There is plenty of blame to go around, but let&amp;#x27;s not absolve Iran of their responsibility in getting getting themselves to a place of direct conflict with the United States. After all, there are a lot of non-democratic&amp;#x2F;authoritarian nations that do not, in fact, have these kinds of sanctions placed on them. Since the Iranian revolution, the Iranian government has been following a path of direct confrontation with the United States and this is the end-result - their economy and people (like yourself) have been hurt through their policies, while United States is fine.</text></comment>
<story><title>Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?</title><url>https://github.com/armancodes/laravel-download-link/pull/9#issuecomment-683417436</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alir3z4</author><text>I never knew about such law.
For those who have Pikachu eyes now, or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment, I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions imposed by US on Iran and Iranian national globally and you&amp;#x27;d see how you&amp;#x27;ll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s #metoo movement for this, put me and other +85 million Iranians in it.&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-customer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alireza.gonevis.com&amp;#x2F;how-i-didnt-get-my-first-paying-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>First time I worked with crypto, it was still a munition. Things were so bad, you weren’t even supposed to ship code that was set up to handle crypto with the crypto removed.  Which is why some APIs are still convoluted today.&lt;p&gt;Last time I worked with crypto, the sanctions had been aligned with overall trade sanctions, so after wasting hours talking about it, turns out my code could go everywhere our products could be legally sold so it wasn’t an issue? You could have led with that.</text></comment>