In Case You Missed It: UANI's World Wide Web Campaign Covered by The New York Times

September 19, 2012

In Case You Missed It: UANI's World Wide Web Campaign Covered by The New York Times

"[UANI Announced] a New Effort to Force the Authorities who Assign International Internet Addresses to Block Sanctioned Iranian Entities and Persons from Access to the Web"

Negotiators Meet in Bid to Revive Iran Talks

By Rick Gladstone
The New York Times
September 19, 2012

The top nuclear negotiators for Iran and the big powers met face to face for the first time in nearly three months on Tuesday, part of an effort to revive the stalled talks over Iran's disputed uranium enrichment activities as new military tensions roil the Middle East. ...

In the United States, United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group that helped pressure a global banking communications network to expel sanctioned Iranian banks, said it had undertaken a new effort to force the authorities who assign international Internet addresses to block sanctioned Iranian entities and persons from access to the Web.

In letters sent to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, based in Los Angeles, and the Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre, known as RIPE NCC, based in Amsterdam, the advocacy group's president, Mark D. Wallace, said they may be in violation of Iran sanctions and that by disconnecting Internet access, "the dictatorial regime of Iran would be severely impeded in pursuing its illegal and amoral activities."

ICANN officials did not respond to requests for comment. RIPE NCC, in a statement posted on its Web site, said that it did not believe it had violated sanctions "but we will investigate in cases where new information is provided to us and we will ensure that changing circumstances do not place the RIPE NCC in violation of sanctions."

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