I suppose this implies that the employee is Iranian.
The U.S. sanctions are pretty aggressive, and I don't think preventing login from Iran is anywhere near enough to comply. The law is the problem here.
Sorry what??? I have family in India, but not because I'm Indian, I just have family there. I have family in Poland, not because I am Polish (well I am kind of, but not on paper). I have family in the UK, but I'm not British.
This is 2021, not Christopher Columbus times.
In 2021, people are still directly related to their parents, and the majority of citizens in most countries is indeed the local population.
They may of course have obtained American citizenship now, but we're talking in the context of crazy US sanctions on Iran here, which I think work on connection to Iran.
I don't think there should be any consequence to being Iranian, but I don't have a say in American politics.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
So, no, it's not merely a "sensible" assumption.
It's an assumption that carries collective trauma and negative connotations for many who's ancestors have experienced painful discrimination because of their ancestry.
> I don't think there should be any consequence to being Iranian, but I don't have a say in American politics.
No, you don't. But you do have a voice to ask critical and nuanced questions out loudly.
It depends on the countries' respective laws, but it's certainly possible that the person in question is not Iranian at all in terms of nationality as opposed to ancestory. As I recall, the law in question pertains to Iranian nationals, not those who happen to have Iranian ancestory.
"The United States has imposed an arms ban and an almost total economic embargo on Iran, which includes sanctions on companies doing business with Iran, a ban on all Iranian-origin imports, sanctions on Iranian financial institutions, ..."
A private visit is not doing business, so the org cannot be blocked. And most other companies are ignoring the US sanctions, that's why we have the current propaganda push.
The law is ok, because economical sanctions are the only way to get rogue nation states to comply. That's why we have sanctions on Iran, Russia, Crimes, North Korea. Unfortunately not against the US yet.
