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Obama announces sanctions on Syria, Iran to prevent tech assaults on activists | | US President Barack Obama has announced new sanctions
against Syria and Iran by taking aim at those who provide their authoritarian governments with technology to perpetrate human rights abuses. In a speech at
the US Holocaust Museum, Obama announced the new sanctions against 'digital guns
for hire'. "The executive order creates sanctions against the government of Syria
and Iran and those who abet them, for using technologies to monitor, target and
track its citizens for violence," the BBC quoted Obama, as saying. "These technologies
should be in place to empower citizens, not to repress them," he added. According
to the report, the specific targets of the sanctions announced by the US Treasury,
includes Iran 's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, Syria 's General Security Directorate
and its chief Ali Mamluk, as well as the state-controlled mobile phone company,
Syriatel. Iran is believed to have provided the government of Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad with programs that jam mobile phones. Social networking sites
that the Syrian opposition would use to organise demonstrations have been blocked
or monitored using similar technologies.
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