We are sorry that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for these countries. There isn't much we can do about this, but we have an open issue discussing this [1]. You can also see the U.S. Department of the Treasury link [2] for more details regarding these sanctions. We planned this move because we wanted to improve our stability, and you can read all the technical details that affected our decision in our blog post [3].

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/issues/649

[2] - https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...

[3] - https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/25/moving-to-gcp