Sallar Kaboli is a developer and UI designer, based in Tehran, Iran.
In a blog post published on the collaborative publication, Medium.com, Sallar Kaboli describes the effects the US embargo against Iran has on in his daily life as a software developer.
“We can not buy hosting space, VPS, domains, SSL certificates and anything related from the companies in the U.S. If even our customer address is located in Iran, our accounts get blocked completely. We can not use services like cPanel from Iran and if we host a .ir domain or even access the panel from an Iranian IP address, we get blocked. We can not access Facebook developers platform if we are from Iran. We can not select Iran as our country in Twitter settings (or any other American service or website for that matter.”
To circumvent these restrictions imposed on Iranians, Sallar Kaboli and others resort to various methods, some of which might violate the rules of the services:
“I have a Paypal account under someone’s name in the U.S and I access my account using a VPN (U.S. IP address) and buy Paypal dollars from dealers in Iran. This proccess is so hard and expensive. Whenever I want to register in a website, I enter fake information and fake address which is the U.S. and access it using a VPN connection so the website thinks im from the U.S. I use fake information and my Paypal account to buy hosting services and domains.”
It’s unfortunate that despite the popularity of Apple products in Iran, there is no authorized or official reseller of Apple in Iran. The life of consumers, as much as that of developers, is extremely complicated on a daily basis.
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