Slick Vision

Notwithstanding US strong attempts to impose difficult sanctions on Iran, Washington announces it’ll permit technology corporations to export Web services to Iran, Cuba and Sudan. The move is a bid targeted at exploiting the libertarian potential of the 3 nations, The Times reported late Sun. . “The more folk have access to a variety of Net technology and services, the harder it should be for the Iranian central authority to clamp down on their speech and free expression,” the paper quoted a senior administration official as pronouncing. The nameless official added the Treasury Office will issue a general license on Monday permitting the exporting of free private Web services like instant messaging, discuss and photograph sharing as well as software to the 3 countries.

The move will permit Net services suppliers including Microsoft and Yahoo to get rid of limitations and offer Net services, the daily announced.

The US and its Western european allies have been pushing hard for harder sanctions against Iran, claiming its nuclear program is following army ends. The claim hasn’t ever been certified by the UN nuclear watchdog, whose inspectors have been monitoring Iran’s activities continually and at length.

Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Bargain , claims its program is directed at the civilian applications of the technology, including power generation. Western states have recently imposed 3 rounds of UNSC-backed sanctions on Iran and are at present lobbying for a 4th, which is assumed to contain a symbolical tightening of commercial measures against the Tehran government, that has insisted that any such actions will again prove futile.