{"id":1395,"date":"2015-08-03T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2015-08-03T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T18:33:00","slug":"politics-overshadows-u-s-tech-firms-hopes-for-entering-iran-all-tech-considered-npr-29-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/08\/03\/politics-overshadows-u-s-tech-firms-hopes-for-entering-iran-all-tech-considered-npr-29-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Overshadows U.S. Tech Firms&#8217; Hopes For Entering Iran : All Tech Considered : NPR, 29 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, last year the Obama administration lifted sanctions on American tech companies that sell personal communication technologies. &#8220;It is fully legal to sell cellphones, laptops, tablets, modems, Wi-Fi routers and most of the software that most people use every day,&#8221; says Vivek Krishnamurthy, who teaches at Harvard Law School. But, Krishnamurthy says, that hasn&#8217;t meant that American tech companies have jumped into Iran \u2014 there&#8217;s still no Apple Store there. &#8220;Doing business with Iran is extremely difficult today because of the comprehensive financial sanctions,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s really hard to get money in or out of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2015\/07\/29\/425297152\/politics-overshadows-u-s-tech-firms-hopes-for-entering-iran\">Politics Overshadows U.S. Tech Firms&#8217; Hopes For Entering Iran : All Tech Considered : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, last year the Obama administration lifted sanctions on American tech companies that sell personal communication technologies. &#8220;It is fully legal to sell cellphones, laptops, tablets, modems, Wi-Fi routers and most of the software that most people use every day,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/08\/03\/politics-overshadows-u-s-tech-firms-hopes-for-entering-iran-all-tech-considered-npr-29-july-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}