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Re:An Open Letter to Google and Apple: Stop Hindering Irania... by Yizahi on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:25AM (#20302965)
Any sanctions align with feudal regimes. How would countries punish such regimes without sanctions? Military operations? That's even worse. Personally I don't see a clear answer to such hard question.
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Re:An Open Letter to Google and Apple: Stop Hindering Irania... by stevenjohns on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:10AM (#20303153)
Pray tell: how did starving Iraqis to the point where 500,000 children under the age of five alone die from malnutrition[0] punish the Iraqi government?

All it did was convert the secular military dictatorship into an extremist religious dictatorship and the effects of this punishment are still being felt today around the entire world[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_campaign#Consequences

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