[umarniz]

The US sanctions on Iran has such a massive impact on Iranians that most of us don't realise.

All US companies have to comply and majority of the tech companies are unfortunately in the US.

I know you can use a VPN and configure it on a router level to make sure that you are always connected via a VPN but just the fact that 1 slip-up can result in account level blocks (which google is notoriously good at and can essentially shut down your business) means no company would want to work with someone working from Iran.

Coming from a 3rd world country, I know the problems of internet censorship which Iranians also face but being too toxic to touch for everyone outside Iran because the US leadership thinks so is just infuriating and heart breaking.

Imagine being a programmer in Iran. Not only do you have less resources to learn and grow, you have a massive handicap to find good work as most work is outside of the country.

Only bet is to leave the country but even there you have a very low probability as you basically can't have a trial period for your job as most companies don't want to risk having their accounts blocked.

Most of us here know how degrading and infuriating the tech recruiting processes can be and now add to it the horrors of working from Iran.

Wars are not supposed to have civilian casualties but this one has a generation of civilians being starved of information and experience critical for them to grow.

[factorialboy]

(Controversial comment)

I am not condoning the actions of the United States government, but arguably the Iranian Islamic theocratic regime has unleashed more horrors on the Iranian people in the last 50 years than any other foreign government.

[edumucelli]

Imagine the horror US has unleashed "invading" almost every country in the world (except 3) with formal or hidden missions.

[publicola1990]

US sanctions are just adding to the troubles of the Iranian people, I should say.

[vernie]

Hmm... I wonder if the United States government had anything to do with that regime coming to power...

[camdenlock]

Imagine having to preface such a benign statement of fact with a disclaimer like that. What kind of bizarre culture have we created?

[mcguire]

Another controversial comment:

This is the other side of the Enlightenment ideal that the legitimacy of a government can only come from the support of its people.

When you declare another people to be, literally, Satan, there may be resulting consequences.

[will4274]

Imagine being a programmer in Israel and hearing that the leader of a neighboring country wants to kill you and everybody you know.

We're not unaware of the impact of sanctions. Fundamentally, starving a generation of Iranians of information and experience is worth it if leads to civil unrest and regime change, therefore preventing Iran's current leaders from committing the genocide they've said they want to commit so many times.

[cutemonster]

> starving a generation of Iranians of information and experience is worth it if leads to civil unrest and regime change

I'm afraid you're mistaken, and that removing knowledge from people just makes the regime stronger.

Instead, providing the people in Iran with more knowledge and education would make even more people oppose the dictatorship, I'd think.

Not nuclear physics though, but GitHub yes sure.

[mleonhard]

Israel is starving several generations of Palestinians of opportunity and experience [0], resulting in civil unrest. Israel could de-escalate its tensions with its neighbors (including Iran) at any time. It just needs to start treating its neighbors with respect.

Unfortunately, peace in the Middle-East would shift political power in all countries involved, shift government spending, reduce military aid from superpowers [1], and reduce the importance of the countries to the superpowers. A lot of power and money is trying to prevent that from happening.

You don't need to play along with those powerful people. They don't want to help you. Lasting peace would help you and your descendants much more than continuing the current situation.

[0] https://www.btselem.org

[1] https://explorer.usaid.gov

[rabite]

Imagine being almost any other religion in the Middle East and learning that Israelis on a day to day basis are lobbying to carve your countries apart by imperialist wars via their American proxies, bulldozing the homes of your coethnics in Palestine, raping their children, forcibly hijacking their TVs and exposing their kids to pornographic broadcasts, organizing a famine in Syria by their Kurdish proxies, and occupying their homelands. It was only in 2006 that Shiites and the SSNP finally kicked them out of South Lebanon, where they regularly committed war atrocities. Add to this the historical genocides that the nation of Israel completed and rejoice in within their scriptures -- the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Jebusites, the Canaanites (the assault on which happened the day after the Israelites convinced them to get circumcized, then went door to door killing them while their dicks hurt) are all tribes that were completely physically wiped out by the Israelites.

This argument should apply to Israel, which is the biggest per capita committer of genocide, land theft, rape, and fraud in the entire world. The entire history of Israel is one of genocide, from the ancient world to today. We need BDS now and a just society would absolutely shun your nation until they respect human rights.