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SANCTIONED BY THE U.S. BUT STILL DOING BUSINESS WITH CALIFORNIA's ICANN & DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE's IANA [ You Are On This CLICKs Page ]
This small thing called IANA is making up to billions $$$ anticipated to make up to trillions $$$ in "profit" under a non-profit Bill Clinton ordered set up back in 1998, under the oversight of the Department of Commerce.
Why the Department of Commerce? Something to do with monies being transfered, putting the world financial system online in to a European based oversight techie system that gave bank codes to countries and municipalities around the world. Online. Not every money movement is known. Bill Clinton's administration oversaw use of masking tools, spook tools, ghosting, opt out without people knowing they were opted in.
All the years, that the United States and other countries imposed sanctions on Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, this little thing called IANA overseen Country Codes TLD's, Top Level Domains, was managed for Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan by the non-profit new company that Bill Clinton approved setting up, to make a fortune as the date got closer to taking IANA out of America to United Nations oversight in Switzerland. Data hungry UN group of "non-profits" is about to get a windfall of U.S. taxpayer owed dollars.
This little company Bill Clinton approved runs the Internet naming functions. This company puts the .ir in Iran, the .iq in Iraq and the .af in afghanistan. And the .ru in Russia. ICANN was violating the sanctions from 1992 through present date.
And the United Nations? Its UNDP ran Afghanistan's country code for the Taliban, too. So much for sanctions. By the way, the I.R.S. states it has no record of a United Nations registered as a non-profit.
The United Nations wants IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. IANA is that funky computer genius program that the, mysteriously, late Jon Postel developed that converts domain names into words and/or pictures from unique number identifiers. Jon Postel was against IANA being used commercially. Jon hacked the Internet. 1998. Then Jon died. Unexpectedly.
Two weeks later, ICANN was born.
The month earlier, GOOGLE was born.
April 2 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the P5+1 and Iran reached a provisional agreement on a framework that would lift most of the sanctions on Iran. The sanctions would be lifted in exchange for Iran' limiting its nuclear programs for at least the next ten years.
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Timelines are rarely wrong, telling things in an order that people sometimes forget to remember especially when some people want things more than ethics.
1865, the ITU, International Telecommunication Union, was formed at the International Telegraph Convention. The founding document of the ITU was the International Telegraph Convention, now called the "Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union". The ITU has 193 member states that are organized in to six regional groups. 192 of the ITU member states are UN members. The 193rd member state is Vatican City. The ITU gives out Country Codes. Country codes are those TLD’s, the top level domain endings, the .us for American, the .fr for France. The six regional groups are APT, Asia Pacific Telecommunity, ASMG, Arab Spectrum Management Group; ATU, African Telecommunications Union; CEPT, the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administration; CITEL, the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission and RCC, the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communication. RCC represents the former Soviet Republics. The ITU, the United Nation’s specialized agency, was given responsibility over information and communication technologies.
1900 is the year the IEC, the union of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, began at in Paris at the International Electrical Congress.
1906 is the year the IEC was formed in London England.
1926 is the year the ISO began as the ISA, the International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations. The United Nations Economic and Social Council gives the ISO “general consultative status.”
1927 is the year ITU Radio Communication was established in 1927 at the CCIR, the International Radio Consultative Committee, “Comite consultative international pour la Radio.”
1938 is the year IEC published a multilingual international vocabulary to unify electrical, electronic and related technologies terminology.
1945 is the year Iran joins the United Nations as a founding member.
1945 is the year Irag joins the United Nations as a founding member.
1946 is the year Afghanistan joins the United Nations as a founding member, too.
1946 is the year the United Nations replaced the League of Nations.
1947 is the year the Geneva Switzerland headquartered ISO, International Organization for Standardization, brand merged out of the ISA. The ISA was frozen during World War II.
1947 is the year delegates of twenty five, 25, members of ISA’s and UNSCC’s newly organized UNSCC, United Nations Standards Coordinating Committee the newly formed global standards body, emerging out from the ISA, began operating. The new organization, the ISO, International Organization for Standardization. The ISO, International Organization for Standardization approves BIC, Business Identifier Codes also called SWIFT ID or SWIFT code. SWIFT-BIC code is ISO 9362. The ISO, based in Geneva where the Central Secretariat is located and the IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission develop the standards and terminology for electronic and related technologies. SWIFT is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a network through which the world sends and receives financial transaction information electronically. SWIFT says its secure, noting that people are learning there is no such thing as “secure” in an online connected world. SWIFT provides its software to financial institutions for use on the SWIFTNet Network, and ISO 9362. All software updates at the command of the software creator already hooked in to the private networks. Access to world finances is at SWIFT’s fingertips.
1947 is the year the ITU joined the United Nations. ITU Telecom World brings governmental, telecommunication and ICT industry people together to share ideas and technology. The ICT, also based in Geneva Switzerland is a member of the public-private partnership of the United Nations Development group. assigns satellite orbits, coordinates the worldwide sharing of radio spectrum, and helped coordinate technical standards around the world including broadband internet, wireless technologies, air and sea navigation, mobile phone, radio astronomy, satellite based meteorology, Internet access, data, voice, TV broadcasting, and next-generation networks.
1948 is the year the IEC was established to set standardization for electrical technology, electronic and related industry moved to Geneva, Switzerland. The IEC charter adresses electrotechnologies. Electrotechnologies including energy production and distribution, electronics, magnetics and electromagnetics, electroacoustics, multimedia, telecommunication and medical technology. The IEC addresses the terminology, symbols, compatability, design, safety and environment.
1973 is the year the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT, the financial telecommunication network was set up. Sends payment orders correspondent account must the institutions have with each other must settle.
1979 is the year the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and its member states imposed sanctions on Iran, crippling its economy yet one of the aforementioned entities continued to support Iran. The United States provided ‘the terrorist regime’ Iran its internet country code, TLD, Top Level Domain.
1981 is the year CISCO-IRAN says it set up in Tehran. CISCO, a PVT J.S.C. says "CISCO Stands for Cable Industries Services Company and was established in 1981 to provide consulting and engineering services to Wire and Cable Industry in Iran."
1987 is the year the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee was created to "develop, maintain, promote and facilitate IT standards."
1988 was the year regulated monopolies within countries began operating their telecommunications. The Internet was growing.
1990 is the year the United Nations Security Council imposed sanction on the Iraqi Republic, four days after Iraq invaded Kuwait remaining in part through till today post Sadam being captured and killed, 2003.
1992 is the year Afghanistan was put on the internet grid. 1992 is also the year Al Gore became Senator. Vint Cerf says Al Gore was made Senator to push the Internet forward. 1992 is also the year that the UNDP took over running Afghanistan’s internet. The UNDP, the United Nations Development Program has “relationships” going back over 60 years.
1992, the CCIR, managing international radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbit resources became the ITU-R. the ITU goals from inception was standardization of global. The ITU Development organizes world ICT events. The UN’s ITU agency along with UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP were responsible for convening WSIS, the World Summit on the Information Society.
1993 is the year President Bill Clinton put Iran on the Internet grid.
1994 is the year Russia’s internet was activated.
1995 is the year the United States sanctioned Iran in the sectors of Missile/arms industry, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Nuclear industry, Banking, Shipping industry, International trade and Insurance and Foreign firms dealing with Iran.
1995 is the year the SWIFT network store and forward system sent around 2.4 million international interbank messages a day in it’s store and forward system of transaction management between Banks. The Banks must have relationships with each other. Bank A sends a message to Bank B with a copy or authorization with institution C. Bank A has to format the message according to standard and securely sends it to SWIFT.
1997 is the year Iraq got tied to the Internet. Bill Clinton was president then, too. IANA’s function gave Iraq the ISP TLD’s iq, gov.iq, edu.iq, com.iq, mil.iq, org.iq and net.iq. Edu.iq is supposed to be reserved for educational institutions; com.iq is supposed to be reserved for commercial entities; mil.iq is supposed to be reserved for military entities; org.iq is supposed to be reserved for non-profit organizations and net.iq is supposed to be reserved for network service providers.
1997 is the year the .af domain was first registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority by Abdul Razeeq, a private Afghan citizen. The IANA website said Razeeq disappeared. Services were halted to the .af domain. The .af, country code TLD, Top Level Domain, should not have been sold to a private citizen by ICANN’s approved registry.
1998 is the year Google was born at Stanford University, one of the academic partners in the U.S. government military ‘ventures.’
1998 is the year President Bill Clinton signed ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers in to existence. ICANN bid to be the NEWCO that would run America’s IANA function under oversight of the US Department of Commerce. ICANN was contracted to manage the Internet’s addresses and Domain names. ICANN’s contract to manage IANA was not put out to competitive bid. The Department of Commerce N.T.I.A. renewed ICANN’s contract. The N.T.I.A. is the National Telecommunications and Information Association.
The N.T.I.A. Agreement was effective upon signature of M. Stuart Lynn for ICANN and Nancy J. Victory for the Department. Victory was Assistant Secretary for Communications for the NTIA. The Agreement said it “may not be amended except upon the mutual written agreement of the Parties.” Each Party could terminate the agreement upon giving one hundred twenty, 120, days written notice to the other Party. If the Agreement was terminated, “each Party shall be solely responsible for the payment of any expenses it has incurred.” The Agreement was “subject to the availability of funds.”
The N.T.I.A. is part of the Executive Branch agency. The N.T.I.A. is responsible for advising the President on telecommunications, information policy issues, NTIA’s programs, policymaking with “focus largely on expanding broadband Internet access and adoption in America, expanding the use of spectrum by all users, and ensuring that the Internet remains an engine for continued innovation and economic growth.”
1999 is the year Iran set up its ISPs. Pars Online was Iran’s first. Iran’s telecommunications is state run by the TCI, Telecommunication Company of Iran.
1999 is the year the United Nations issued sanctions against Afghanistan. The United Nations required all member states to “freeze the assets, prevent the entry into or the transit through their territories, and prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer of arms and military equipment with regard to any individual or entity associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden and/or the Taliban as designated by the relevant Sanctions Committee.”
1999 is the year the United Nations Security Council issued sanctions against the Taliban.
1999 is the year the United States issued sanctions against the Taliban “to hand over Osama bin Laden, by denying them access to American financial institutions and companies, and freezing any assets they may have in the US. But Administration officials admit that the effect of the sanctions is likely to be modest given the fact that trade between the two countries amounted to only $24m last year.”
2001 is the year SWIFTs IP Network infrastructure began to use SWIFTNET. SWIFT is the Registration Authority for select ISO standards cooperatively defined by SWIFT with International Organizations working together to define financial message syntax, content and format standards. Financial processing systems can read and process messages formatted to SWIFT standards. SWIFT is described as a cooperative society operating under Belgian law. SWIFT is owned by its member financial institutions. SWIFT hosts SIBOS an annual conference for their member financial institutions with offices around the world. The SWIFT messaging network is from two data centers, one in the Netherlands, the second in the United States. SWIFT says their data centers share information in real time. In the event one data center goes down the second data center is expected to continue working without skipping a beat, unless the two data centers are taken out simultaneously.
2001 is the year ICANN’s mission was “to coordinate the stable operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems:
a. Coordinates the allocation and assignment of three sets of unique identifiers for the Internet: Domain names (forming a system referred to as the "DNS"); Internet protocol (IP) addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers; and Protocol port and parameter numbers.
b. Coordinates the operation and evolution of the DNS's root name server system.
c. Coordinates policy-development as necessary to perform these functions.
2001 is the year the State Departed issued a press release stating a “new Interim Authority in Afghanistan, UNDP contacted ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to assume the administration of the .af registry.” The State Department press release that said, “At the time, Internet access and connections were still extremely limited in Afghanistan, with a few non-governmental organizations and international organizations maintaining the only active links. UNDP was given the task by the Interim Authority to restore the .af registry to active status, with the understanding that its role would be transitional and temporary. UNDP began the challenge of restoring Internet Domain Name Systems (DNS) service, building technical and administrative capacity within Afghanistan.” The Press Release continued the UNDP “helped to ensure Internet connectivity with direct satellite access for President Hamid Karzai's Office, the Afghanistan Aid Coordination Authority and the Ministry of Women's Affairs. A UNDP contribution of US$80,000 provided assistance to the creation of the Government's intranet system, including the training for and installation of microwave towers in 10 sites.” The press release stated lease the UNDP and Cisco Systems created the Cisco Networking Academy Program at Kabul University…” UNDP organized international ICT policy workshops for senior Afghan policy-makers with ICT experts from other countries.”
The first websites registered under the new ".af" domain was the Ministry of Communications www.moc.gov.af site and the local www.undp.org.af site of the United Nations Development Program which provided legal counsel and technical support for the ".af" program.
2002 is the year ICANN’s Board of Directors authorized the MoU. The IANA report said this MoU “paralled” the MoU that ICANN signed with .bi, .la and .mw. The Burundi MoU was signed 5/16/2002. The .la MoU is for Laos, managed by the Lao National Internet Committee. The .mw MoU with Malawi was signed 6/18/2002.
2002 the UNPD and IANA agreed to return Afghanistan’s ccTLD, country code Top Level Doman, .af, back to Afghanistan’s control. IANA recognized UNDP as a “trusted partner in rebuilding Afghanistan.” Marc Lepage was the ICT program manager of the UNDP anointed the technical official. IANA said the “UNDP would administer the ccTLD for the benefit of Afghan community.” The UNDP would follow the international policy for three, 3, letter codes, .com, .gov, .mil, .org, .edu. The .af technical documentation overseen by the United Nations would “recognize intellectual property rights in terms of domain names.” Recognizing intellectual property rights in terms of domain names would mean to protect trademarks, as set out in the original ICANN White Paper that President Clinton’s administration stated would be done.
2002 is the year Iran's nuclear program became public.
2003 is the year ICANN signed an MoU, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan, the manager, the Ministry of Communications. ICANN’s contract described ICANN as “the non-profit corporation that was formed on 30 September 1998 for purposes of providing technical-coordination functions for the Internet in the public interest.” The MoU says “among ICANN’s responsibilities is to oversee operation of the Internet’s Authoritative Root-Server System.” Afghanistan was taking over managerial responsibilities for its .af ccTLD. The purpose of the MoU was to formalize the relationship between “the Manager” and ICANN.
The Contract “Recognitions” recognized that ICANN was and would remain the Internet coordination entity responsible to the global Internet Community for the development of policies for the overall coordination of the Internet domain-name system (DNS) in a manner that maintains it as a stable and interoperable global naming system for the Internet.”
2003, Sepanta سپنتا Communication Development Co. began providing dial up to Tehran. Shahrad شبکه شهراد Net Company Ltd. has been providing ADSL and dialup since 2006 for home users in Tehran. Shatel is the first gigabit wireless network operator using microwave frequency. Six companies comprise Shatel. They are Aria Shatel, Aria Rasaneh Tadbir, Asr-e Shatel Ertebat, Aria Rasaneh Tadbir, Aria Resaneh and Aria Tel. Unesco awarded Iran a special certificate for getting telecom services to rural areas. Iran’s international connection services are provided by Infrastructure Company of Iran. ICI is owned by TCI. FLAG, Fiber-Optic Link Around The Globe links Iran’s fiber-optic cable to the United Arab Emirates. TAE, Trans Asia Europe runs fiber optic lines to north Iran with eyes on connecting the optical fiber networks to the north and northwestern borders.
2003 and 2005 the U.N/ held a Summit, Geneva and Tunis, focused on bridging the digital divide.
2005 is the year that ICANN approved Iraq’s internet re-delegation to Iraq’s National Communications and Media Commission. Along the way, Iraq’s Internet ran in to problems. The Texas base delegated manager of Iraq’s .iq TLD was jailed for his connection to Hamas.
2005 is the year China became Iran's largest remaining trading partner moving to participate in the oil operations off the coast of Gush Katif.
2006 is the year the United Nations sanctioned Iran in the sectors of Missile/arms industry, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Nuclear industry, Banking, Shipping industry, International trade and Insurance.
2006 is the year the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1737,
2007 is the year the United Nations Security Council then passed Resolution 1747 , freezing more Iranian assets.
2007 is the year the European Union sanctioned Iran in the sectors of Missile/arms industry, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Nuclear industry, Energy/petroleum industry, Banking, Central bank, Shipping industry, International trade and Insurance.
2007 is the year the SWIFT Network instituted SWIFTNET Phase 2, migrating its infrastructure to the new protocol. Phase 2 required banks to connect to the SWIFT Network using RMA, Relationship Management Application. Prior to SWIFTNET 2 being implemented, the network used BKE, the bilateral key exchange system. SWIFT said the RMA software would be more secure and easier to maintain. Thousands of banks around the world to comply with SWIFTNET Phase 2’s new standards had to update their international payments systems.
2007 is the year FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority replaced the former NASD and NYSE. Official word was the NASD folded. The New NASD and NASD Holdings emerged, quietly.
2008, March 3 the United Nations Security Council froze even more Iranian assets with the passing of Resolution 1803. The United Nations told its member states to monitor Iranian bank activities. People tracking was announced too, if the person was connected to Iran’s nuclear program.
2009 is the year SWIFT opened a third data center in Switzerland. The third data center disconnected the European SWIFT members from the U.S. data center, separating the messaging zones in to the European and Transatlantic zones. Messaging from countries outside of Europe were by default assigned to the Trans-Atlantic Zone. The countries could opt for the financial messaging to be stored in the European zone. Parts of the European and Transatlantic zone message are stored in Switzerland.
2009 is the year RMA replaced BKE.
2009 is the year online theft exploded.
2010 is the year the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1929 freezing more Iranian funds, the assets of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, prohibited opening of Iranian banks on their territory and prevented Iranian banks from doing business with banks if it might contribute to the nuclear program. The United Nations Security Council prevented financial institutions operating in their territory from opening offices and accounts in Iran.
2010 is the year the U.S. Code included 31 CFR 560.540, Exportation of certain services and software incident to Internet-based communications.
§ 560.540 adresses “Exportation of certain services and software incident to Internet-based communications.”
(a) To the extent that such transactions are not exempt from the prohibitions of this part and subject to the restrictions set forth in paragraph (b) of this section, the following transactions are authorized:
(1) The exportation from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, to persons in Iran of services incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet, such as instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, and blogging, provided that such services are publicly available at no cost to the user.
(2) The exportation from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, to persons in Iran of software necessary to enable the services described in paragraph (a)
(1) of this section, provided that such software is classified as “EAR99” under the Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR parts 730 through 774 (the “EAR”), is not subject to the EAR, or is classified by the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) as mass market software under export control classification number (“ECCN”) 5D992 of the EAR, and provided further that such software is publicly available at no cost to the user.
(b) This section does not authorize:
(1) The direct or indirect exportation of services or software with knowledge or reason to know that such services or software are intended for the Government of Iran.
(2) The direct or indirect exportation of any goods or technology listed on the Commerce Control List in the EAR, 15 CFR part 774, supplement No. 1 (“CCL”), except for software necessary to enable the services described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section that is classified by Commerce as mass market software under ECCN 5D992 of the EAR.
(3) The direct or indirect exportation of Internet connectivity services or telecommunications transmission facilities (such as satellite links or dedicated lines).
(4) The direct or indirect exportation of web-hosting services that are for purposes other than personal communications (e.g., web-hosting services for commercial endeavors) or of domain name registration services.
(c) Specific licenses may be issued on a case-by-case basis for the exportation of other services and software incident to the sharing of information over the Internet, provided the software is classified as “EAR99,” not subject to the EAR, or classified by Commerce as mass market software under ECCN 5D992 of the EAR.” 2010 – 2012 were the years sanctions cost U.S. over $175b in lost trade and 279,000 lost job opportunities, cost the EU states more than twice as much in lost trade revenue. Germany lost between $23.1 and $73.0 billion. Italy and France lost between $13.6-$42.8 billion and $10.9-$34.2 billion.
2011 is the year the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1984. European Union restricted foreign trade, financial services, energy sectors and technologies with Iran. Except, ICANN, under contract with the Department of Commerce was engaged in business with Iran. Somehow.
2012 is the year the EU disconnected all Iranian banks in breach of EU sanctions from SWIFT.
2012 is the year the US and EU imposed additional sanctions on Iranian oil exports and banks.
2012 is the year the US House of Representatives opposed U.N. governance of the Internet by a rare unanimous 397–0 vote. The resolution warned that "... proposals have been put forward for consideration at the [WCIT-12] that would fundamentally alter the governance and operation of the Internet ... [and] would attempt to justify increased government control over the Internet ...", and stated that the policy of the United States is "... to promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder Model that governs the Internet today." The Senate passed the same resolution in September.
2012 is the year the ITU released the statement, “New global telecoms treaty agreed in Dubai.” The ITU did not state that December 14, 2012, only 89 of 152 countries signed the ITU amended Internet Regulations. The US, Japan, UK, Canada, India and New Zealand did not sign. The U.S. Delegation head Terry Kramer said, On 14 December 2012, an amended version of the Regulations was signed by 89 of the 152 countries. Countries that did not sign included the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, India and the United Kingdom disagreeing over language addressing unsolicited bulk communications, network security, and a resolution on Internet governance. The Resolution called for government participation in Internet topics at ITU forums. WCIT documents were leaked on to a site wcitleaks.org.
2012 is the year SWIFT announced the European Union instructed SWIFT to discontinue its communications services to Iranian financial institutions subject to European sanctions.
2012 is the year political activists against IRAN called for SWIFT to terminate its business relationships with the Central Bank of Iran, the Sepah Bank, the Post Bank of Iran, the Bank Mellat, the Saderat Bank of Iran and all of Iran’s banking system. The political activists said SWIFT allowing Iran’s membership violated U.S. and E.U. financial sanctions against Iran, maintaining SWIFT was violation SWIFT’s own corporate rules.
2012 is the year the U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted to sanction SWIFT to pressure the financial telecommunications network to cut off the Iranian banks access to billions of dollars in revenue and spending. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee did not terminate Irans access to the Internet via the Department of Commerce’s IANA function.
One month later, the CEU, Council of the European Union voted to disconnect Iranian banks from the SWIFT network. SWIFT left other Iranian financial institutions connected. The U.S. Department of Treasury has implemented control over SWIFT, seizing monies being moved between two EU countries. A Danish businessman was accused of violation the U.S. Cuba embargo when the Danish businessman transferred $26,000 to a German bank for Cuban cigars imported to Germany.
Switzerland’s ban included restricting financial services. The United Nations has many entities located in Switzerland and Brussels. The United Nations BIC/SWIFT code is UNATU33. The Vatican’s Holy See Vatican City SWIFT numbers are Amminisstrazione Del Patrimonio Della Sede Apostolica is APDEVAVAXXX and Istituto Per Le Opere Di Religione is IOPRVAVXXXX.
SWIFT issued the U.N. New York City location Code and the Vatican Holy See location codes in consultation with the United States.
2012 is the year the US froze all property of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian financial institutions, as well as that of the Iranian government, within the United States.[40] The American view is that sanctions should target Iran's energy sector that provides about 80% of government revenues, and try to isolate Iran from the international financial system.[41]
2013 is the year the United States government blacklisted major Iranian electronics producers, Internet policing agencies, and the state broadcasting authority, in an effort to lessen restrictions of access to information for the general public. The sanctions were imposed to target Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, which is responsible for broadcast policy in Iran and oversees production of Iranian television and radio channels. The "Iranian Cyber Police" were targeted. The "Communications Regulatory Authority" was targeted. The U.S. Treasury Department said these entities were created to blocking Web sites deemed objectionable by the Iranian government, filter data and monitor Internet behavior, most likely to block out Voice Of America and other U.S. policy content shows.
2013 is the year the Guardian newspaper reported on the impact of the sanctions on Iran’s patients- cancer, HIV/Aids, haemophiliacs unable to get their drugs or sterilizing machines because sanctions barred western pharmaceutical companies from doing business with Iran.
2013 is the year the European Parliament passed their resolution telling Member states to stop ITU WCIT-12. WCIT is the World Conference on International Telecommunications. The EU resolution said "the ITU … is not the appropriate body to assert regulatory authority over the internet.”
2014 is the year the I.T.U. released a report was issued stating there are 113,609,510 Internet users in the Middle East. Iran has 48.6 million users. Iraq has 2,211,860 in a population of near 31,000,000. Afghanistan has 4,0005,414 users. The United Nations assigns and approves country codes for TLD, Top Level Domains including Iran’s, Iraq’s and Afghanistan’s country codes. In fact, the United Nations assigned and approved everyone’s country codes.
2014 is the year the SWIFT network interbank messaging rose to 15 million messages a day between its 9000 financial institutions in 209 countries.
2015, July 20, is when the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2231, setting the schedule to lift U.N. sanctions keeping the ability to re-impose the sanctions, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action pre-determined, if Iran violated the agreement.
2016 is the year, September is the month that IANA is going to be removed from America to the United Nations, Geneva Switzerland. It has been almost twenty, 20, years since 1998, ICANN, the profitable California non-profit has been operating the IANA under a contract to the Department of Commerce that does not appear to have gone out to competitive bid. ICANN’s contract with the Department of Commerce cycles in September.
The UN has formally and publicly begun its push for regulatory oversight, management and traffic flow of Internet Domain Names, IP addresses. The United Nations ambition is 1net.org, expansion of the United Nations I.T.U., Internet Telecommunications Union.
The United Nations wants IANA. IANA is a cash cow. IANA gives the UN what it seeks, data to feed the U.N. data program.
IANA, the Internet Assigned Number Authority, is a cash cow, heading to a billion projected to go to a trillion. The taxpayer funder agency that President Clinton approved going private, to be run by NEWCO, a hastily set up company that would be a non-profit. President Clinton’s non-profit ICANN has seen its “non-profit” leapfrog from $70 million to near ½ billion in almost two, 2, years with little sign of stopping. And TOR, too. TOR is the onion routing tool used to mask who goes where on the internet without being seen or tracked if one does not want to be seen or tracked. Even from home servers. Even communications sent to or from the State Department.
April 2 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the P5+1 and Iran reached a provisional agreement on a framework that would lift most of the sanctions on Iran. The sanctions would be lifted in exchange for Iran' limiting its nuclear programs for at least the next ten years.
Something is wrong with this picture.
Timelines are rarely wrong, telling things in an order that people sometimes forget to remember especially when some people want things more than ethics.
1865, the ITU, International Telecommunication Union, was formed at the International Telegraph Convention. The founding document of the ITU was the International Telegraph Convention, now called the "Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union". The ITU has 193 member states that are organized in to six regional groups. 192 of the ITU member states are UN members. The 193rd member state is Vatican City. The ITU gives out Country Codes. Country codes are those TLD’s, the top level domain endings, the .us for American, the .fr for France. The six regional groups are APT, Asia Pacific Telecommunity, ASMG, Arab Spectrum Management Group; ATU, African Telecommunications Union; CEPT, the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administration; CITEL, the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission and RCC, the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communication. RCC represents the former Soviet Republics. The ITU, the United Nation’s specialized agency, was given responsibility over information and communication technologies.
1900 is the year the IEC, the union of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, began at in Paris at the International Electrical Congress.
1906 is the year the IEC was formed in London England.
1926 is the year the ISO began as the ISA, the International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations. The United Nations Economic and Social Council gives the ISO “general consultative status.”
1927 is the year ITU Radio Communication was established in 1927 at the CCIR, the International Radio Consultative Committee, “Comite consultative international pour la Radio.”
1938 is the year IEC published a multilingual international vocabulary to unify electrical, electronic and related technologies terminology.
1945 is the year Iran joins the United Nations as a founding member.
1945 is the year Irag joins the United Nations as a founding member.
1946 is the year Afghanistan joins the United Nations as a founding member, too.
1946 is the year the United Nations replaced the League of Nations.
1947 is the year the Geneva Switzerland headquartered ISO, International Organization for Standardization, brand merged out of the ISA. The ISA was frozen during World War II.
1947 is the year delegates of twenty five, 25, members of ISA’s and UNSCC’s newly organized UNSCC, United Nations Standards Coordinating Committee the newly formed global standards body, emerging out from the ISA, began operating. The new organization, the ISO, International Organization for Standardization. The ISO, International Organization for Standardization approves BIC, Business Identifier Codes also called SWIFT ID or SWIFT code. SWIFT-BIC code is ISO 9362. The ISO, based in Geneva where the Central Secretariat is located and the IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission develop the standards and terminology for electronic and related technologies. SWIFT is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a network through which the world sends and receives financial transaction information electronically. SWIFT says its secure, noting that people are learning there is no such thing as “secure” in an online connected world. SWIFT provides its software to financial institutions for use on the SWIFTNet Network, and ISO 9362. All software updates at the command of the software creator already hooked in to the private networks. Access to world finances is at SWIFT’s fingertips.
1947 is the year the ITU joined the United Nations. ITU Telecom World brings governmental, telecommunication and ICT industry people together to share ideas and technology. The ICT, also based in Geneva Switzerland is a member of the public-private partnership of the United Nations Development group. assigns satellite orbits, coordinates the worldwide sharing of radio spectrum, and helped coordinate technical standards around the world including broadband internet, wireless technologies, air and sea navigation, mobile phone, radio astronomy, satellite based meteorology, Internet access, data, voice, TV broadcasting, and next-generation networks.
1948 is the year the IEC was established to set standardization for electrical technology, electronic and related industry moved to Geneva, Switzerland. The IEC charter adresses electrotechnologies. Electrotechnologies including energy production and distribution, electronics, magnetics and electromagnetics, electroacoustics, multimedia, telecommunication and medical technology. The IEC addresses the terminology, symbols, compatability, design, safety and environment.
1973 is the year the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT, the financial telecommunication network was set up. Sends payment orders correspondent account must the institutions have with each other must settle.
1979 is the year the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and its member states imposed sanctions on Iran, crippling its economy yet one of the aforementioned entities continued to support Iran. The United States provided ‘the terrorist regime’ Iran its internet country code, TLD, Top Level Domain.
1981 is the year CISCO-IRAN says it set up in Tehran. CISCO, a PVT J.S.C. says "CISCO Stands for Cable Industries Services Company and was established in 1981 to provide consulting and engineering services to Wire and Cable Industry in Iran."
1987 is the year the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee was created to "develop, maintain, promote and facilitate IT standards."
1988 was the year regulated monopolies within countries began operating their telecommunications. The Internet was growing.
1990 is the year the United Nations Security Council imposed sanction on the Iraqi Republic, four days after Iraq invaded Kuwait remaining in part through till today post Sadam being captured and killed, 2003.
1992 is the year Afghanistan was put on the internet grid. 1992 is also the year Al Gore became Senator. Vint Cerf says Al Gore was made Senator to push the Internet forward. 1992 is also the year that the UNDP took over running Afghanistan’s internet. The UNDP, the United Nations Development Program has “relationships” going back over 60 years.
1992, the CCIR, managing international radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbit resources became the ITU-R. the ITU goals from inception was standardization of global. The ITU Development organizes world ICT events. The UN’s ITU agency along with UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP were responsible for convening WSIS, the World Summit on the Information Society.
1993 is the year President Bill Clinton put Iran on the Internet grid.
1994 is the year Russia’s internet was activated.
1995 is the year the United States sanctioned Iran in the sectors of Missile/arms industry, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Nuclear industry, Banking, Shipping industry, International trade and Insurance and Foreign firms dealing with Iran.
1995 is the year the SWIFT network store and forward system sent around 2.4 million international interbank messages a day in it’s store and forward system of transaction management between Banks. The Banks must have relationships with each other. Bank A sends a message to Bank B with a copy or authorization with institution C. Bank A has to format the message according to standard and securely sends it to SWIFT.
1997 is the year Iraq got tied to the Internet. Bill Clinton was president then, too. IANA’s function gave Iraq the ISP TLD’s iq, gov.iq, edu.iq, com.iq, mil.iq, org.iq and net.iq. Edu.iq is supposed to be reserved for educational institutions; com.iq is supposed to be reserved for commercial entities; mil.iq is supposed to be reserved for military entities; org.iq is supposed to be reserved for non-profit organizations and net.iq is supposed to be reserved for network service providers.
1997 is the year the .af domain was first registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority by Abdul Razeeq, a private Afghan citizen. The IANA website said Razeeq disappeared. Services were halted to the .af domain. The .af, country code TLD, Top Level Domain, should not have been sold to a private citizen by ICANN’s approved registry.
1998 is the year Google was born at Stanford University, one of the academic partners in the U.S. government military ‘ventures.’
1998 is the year President Bill Clinton signed ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers in to existence. ICANN bid to be the NEWCO that would run America’s IANA function under oversight of the US Department of Commerce. ICANN was contracted to manage the Internet’s addresses and Domain names. ICANN’s contract to manage IANA was not put out to competitive bid. The Department of Commerce N.T.I.A. renewed ICANN’s contract. The N.T.I.A. is the National Telecommunications and Information Association.
The N.T.I.A. Agreement was effective upon signature of M. Stuart Lynn for ICANN and Nancy J. Victory for the Department. Victory was Assistant Secretary for Communications for the NTIA. The Agreement said it “may not be amended except upon the mutual written agreement of the Parties.” Each Party could terminate the agreement upon giving one hundred twenty, 120, days written notice to the other Party. If the Agreement was terminated, “each Party shall be solely responsible for the payment of any expenses it has incurred.” The Agreement was “subject to the availability of funds.”
The N.T.I.A. is part of the Executive Branch agency. The N.T.I.A. is responsible for advising the President on telecommunications, information policy issues, NTIA’s programs, policymaking with “focus largely on expanding broadband Internet access and adoption in America, expanding the use of spectrum by all users, and ensuring that the Internet remains an engine for continued innovation and economic growth.”
1999 is the year Iran set up its ISPs. Pars Online was Iran’s first. Iran’s telecommunications is state run by the TCI, Telecommunication Company of Iran.
1999 is the year the United Nations issued sanctions against Afghanistan. The United Nations required all member states to “freeze the assets, prevent the entry into or the transit through their territories, and prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer of arms and military equipment with regard to any individual or entity associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden and/or the Taliban as designated by the relevant Sanctions Committee.”
1999 is the year the United Nations Security Council issued sanctions against the Taliban.
1999 is the year the United States issued sanctions against the Taliban “to hand over Osama bin Laden, by denying them access to American financial institutions and companies, and freezing any assets they may have in the US. But Administration officials admit that the effect of the sanctions is likely to be modest given the fact that trade between the two countries amounted to only $24m last year.”
2001 is the year SWIFTs IP Network infrastructure began to use SWIFTNET. SWIFT is the Registration Authority for select ISO standards cooperatively defined by SWIFT with International Organizations working together to define financial message syntax, content and format standards. Financial processing systems can read and process messages formatted to SWIFT standards. SWIFT is described as a cooperative society operating under Belgian law. SWIFT is owned by its member financial institutions. SWIFT hosts SIBOS an annual conference for their member financial institutions with offices around the world. The SWIFT messaging network is from two data centers, one in the Netherlands, the second in the United States. SWIFT says their data centers share information in real time. In the event one data center goes down the second data center is expected to continue working without skipping a beat, unless the two data centers are taken out simultaneously.
2001 is the year ICANN’s mission was “to coordinate the stable operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems:
a. Coordinates the allocation and assignment of three sets of unique identifiers for the Internet: Domain names (forming a system referred to as the "DNS"); Internet protocol (IP) addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers; and Protocol port and parameter numbers.
b. Coordinates the operation and evolution of the DNS's root name server system.
c. Coordinates policy-development as necessary to perform these functions.
2001 is the year the State Departed issued a press release stating a “new Interim Authority in Afghanistan, UNDP contacted ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to assume the administration of the .af registry.” The State Department press release that said, “At the time, Internet access and connections were still extremely limited in Afghanistan, with a few non-governmental organizations and international organizations maintaining the only active links. UNDP was given the task by the Interim Authority to restore the .af registry to active status, with the understanding that its role would be transitional and temporary. UNDP began the challenge of restoring Internet Domain Name Systems (DNS) service, building technical and administrative capacity within Afghanistan.” The Press Release continued the UNDP “helped to ensure Internet connectivity with direct satellite access for President Hamid Karzai's Office, the Afghanistan Aid Coordination Authority and the Ministry of Women's Affairs. A UNDP contribution of US$80,000 provided assistance to the creation of the Government's intranet system, including the training for and installation of microwave towers in 10 sites.” The press release stated lease the UNDP and Cisco Systems created the Cisco Networking Academy Program at Kabul University…” UNDP organized international ICT policy workshops for senior Afghan policy-makers with ICT experts from other countries.”
The first websites registered under the new ".af" domain was the Ministry of Communications www.moc.gov.af site and the local www.undp.org.af site of the United Nations Development Program which provided legal counsel and technical support for the ".af" program.
2002 is the year ICANN’s Board of Directors authorized the MoU. The IANA report said this MoU “paralled” the MoU that ICANN signed with .bi, .la and .mw. The Burundi MoU was signed 5/16/2002. The .la MoU is for Laos, managed by the Lao National Internet Committee. The .mw MoU with Malawi was signed 6/18/2002.
2002 the UNPD and IANA agreed to return Afghanistan’s ccTLD, country code Top Level Doman, .af, back to Afghanistan’s control. IANA recognized UNDP as a “trusted partner in rebuilding Afghanistan.” Marc Lepage was the ICT program manager of the UNDP anointed the technical official. IANA said the “UNDP would administer the ccTLD for the benefit of Afghan community.” The UNDP would follow the international policy for three, 3, letter codes, .com, .gov, .mil, .org, .edu. The .af technical documentation overseen by the United Nations would “recognize intellectual property rights in terms of domain names.” Recognizing intellectual property rights in terms of domain names would mean to protect trademarks, as set out in the original ICANN White Paper that President Clinton’s administration stated would be done.
2002 is the year Iran's nuclear program became public.
2003 is the year ICANN signed an MoU, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan, the manager, the Ministry of Communications. ICANN’s contract described ICANN as “the non-profit corporation that was formed on 30 September 1998 for purposes of providing technical-coordination functions for the Internet in the public interest.” The MoU says “among ICANN’s responsibilities is to oversee operation of the Internet’s Authoritative Root-Server System.” Afghanistan was taking over managerial responsibilities for its .af ccTLD. The purpose of the MoU was to formalize the relationship between “the Manager” and ICANN.
The Contract “Recognitions” recognized that ICANN was and would remain the Internet coordination entity responsible to the global Internet Community for the development of policies for the overall coordination of the Internet domain-name system (DNS) in a manner that maintains it as a stable and interoperable global naming system for the Internet.”
2003, Sepanta سپنتا Communication Development Co. began providing dial up to Tehran. Shahrad شبکه شهراد Net Company Ltd. has been providing ADSL and dialup since 2006 for home users in Tehran. Shatel is the first gigabit wireless network operator using microwave frequency. Six companies comprise Shatel. They are Aria Shatel, Aria Rasaneh Tadbir, Asr-e Shatel Ertebat, Aria Rasaneh Tadbir, Aria Resaneh and Aria Tel. Unesco awarded Iran a special certificate for getting telecom services to rural areas. Iran’s international connection services are provided by Infrastructure Company of Iran. ICI is owned by TCI. FLAG, Fiber-Optic Link Around The Globe links Iran’s fiber-optic cable to the United Arab Emirates. TAE, Trans Asia Europe runs fiber optic lines to north Iran with eyes on connecting the optical fiber networks to the north and northwestern borders.
2003 and 2005 the U.N/ held a Summit, Geneva and Tunis, focused on bridging the digital divide.
2005 is the year that ICANN approved Iraq’s internet re-delegation to Iraq’s National Communications and Media Commission. Along the way, Iraq’s Internet ran in to problems. The Texas base delegated manager of Iraq’s .iq TLD was jailed for his connection to Hamas.
2005 is the year China became Iran's largest remaining trading partner moving to participate in the oil operations off the coast of Gush Katif.
2006 is the year the United Nations sanctioned Iran in the sectors of Missile/arms industry, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Nuclear industry, Banking, Shipping industry, International trade and Insurance.
2006 is the year the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1737,
2007 is the year the United Nations Security Council then passed Resolution 1747 , freezing more Iranian assets.
2007 is the year the European Union sanctioned Iran in the sectors of Missile/arms industry, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Nuclear industry, Energy/petroleum industry, Banking, Central bank, Shipping industry, International trade and Insurance.
2007 is the year the SWIFT Network instituted SWIFTNET Phase 2, migrating its infrastructure to the new protocol. Phase 2 required banks to connect to the SWIFT Network using RMA, Relationship Management Application. Prior to SWIFTNET 2 being implemented, the network used BKE, the bilateral key exchange system. SWIFT said the RMA software would be more secure and easier to maintain. Thousands of banks around the world to comply with SWIFTNET Phase 2’s new standards had to update their international payments systems.
2007 is the year FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority replaced the former NASD and NYSE. Official word was the NASD folded. The New NASD and NASD Holdings emerged, quietly.
2008, March 3 the United Nations Security Council froze even more Iranian assets with the passing of Resolution 1803. The United Nations told its member states to monitor Iranian bank activities. People tracking was announced too, if the person was connected to Iran’s nuclear program.
2009 is the year SWIFT opened a third data center in Switzerland. The third data center disconnected the European SWIFT members from the U.S. data center, separating the messaging zones in to the European and Transatlantic zones. Messaging from countries outside of Europe were by default assigned to the Trans-Atlantic Zone. The countries could opt for the financial messaging to be stored in the European zone. Parts of the European and Transatlantic zone message are stored in Switzerland.
2009 is the year RMA replaced BKE.
2009 is the year online theft exploded.
2010 is the year the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1929 freezing more Iranian funds, the assets of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, prohibited opening of Iranian banks on their territory and prevented Iranian banks from doing business with banks if it might contribute to the nuclear program. The United Nations Security Council prevented financial institutions operating in their territory from opening offices and accounts in Iran.
2010 is the year the U.S. Code included 31 CFR 560.540, Exportation of certain services and software incident to Internet-based communications.
§ 560.540 adresses “Exportation of certain services and software incident to Internet-based communications.”
(a) To the extent that such transactions are not exempt from the prohibitions of this part and subject to the restrictions set forth in paragraph (b) of this section, the following transactions are authorized:
(1) The exportation from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, to persons in Iran of services incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet, such as instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, and blogging, provided that such services are publicly available at no cost to the user.
(2) The exportation from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, to persons in Iran of software necessary to enable the services described in paragraph (a)
(1) of this section, provided that such software is classified as “EAR99” under the Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR parts 730 through 774 (the “EAR”), is not subject to the EAR, or is classified by the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) as mass market software under export control classification number (“ECCN”) 5D992 of the EAR, and provided further that such software is publicly available at no cost to the user.
(b) This section does not authorize:
(1) The direct or indirect exportation of services or software with knowledge or reason to know that such services or software are intended for the Government of Iran.
(2) The direct or indirect exportation of any goods or technology listed on the Commerce Control List in the EAR, 15 CFR part 774, supplement No. 1 (“CCL”), except for software necessary to enable the services described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section that is classified by Commerce as mass market software under ECCN 5D992 of the EAR.
(3) The direct or indirect exportation of Internet connectivity services or telecommunications transmission facilities (such as satellite links or dedicated lines).
(4) The direct or indirect exportation of web-hosting services that are for purposes other than personal communications (e.g., web-hosting services for commercial endeavors) or of domain name registration services.
(c) Specific licenses may be issued on a case-by-case basis for the exportation of other services and software incident to the sharing of information over the Internet, provided the software is classified as “EAR99,” not subject to the EAR, or classified by Commerce as mass market software under ECCN 5D992 of the EAR.” 2010 – 2012 were the years sanctions cost U.S. over $175b in lost trade and 279,000 lost job opportunities, cost the EU states more than twice as much in lost trade revenue. Germany lost between $23.1 and $73.0 billion. Italy and France lost between $13.6-$42.8 billion and $10.9-$34.2 billion.
2011 is the year the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1984. European Union restricted foreign trade, financial services, energy sectors and technologies with Iran. Except, ICANN, under contract with the Department of Commerce was engaged in business with Iran. Somehow.
2012 is the year the EU disconnected all Iranian banks in breach of EU sanctions from SWIFT.
2012 is the year the US and EU imposed additional sanctions on Iranian oil exports and banks.
2012 is the year the US House of Representatives opposed U.N. governance of the Internet by a rare unanimous 397–0 vote. The resolution warned that "... proposals have been put forward for consideration at the [WCIT-12] that would fundamentally alter the governance and operation of the Internet ... [and] would attempt to justify increased government control over the Internet ...", and stated that the policy of the United States is "... to promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder Model that governs the Internet today." The Senate passed the same resolution in September.
2012 is the year the ITU released the statement, “New global telecoms treaty agreed in Dubai.” The ITU did not state that December 14, 2012, only 89 of 152 countries signed the ITU amended Internet Regulations. The US, Japan, UK, Canada, India and New Zealand did not sign. The U.S. Delegation head Terry Kramer said, On 14 December 2012, an amended version of the Regulations was signed by 89 of the 152 countries. Countries that did not sign included the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, India and the United Kingdom disagreeing over language addressing unsolicited bulk communications, network security, and a resolution on Internet governance. The Resolution called for government participation in Internet topics at ITU forums. WCIT documents were leaked on to a site wcitleaks.org.
2012 is the year SWIFT announced the European Union instructed SWIFT to discontinue its communications services to Iranian financial institutions subject to European sanctions.
2012 is the year political activists against IRAN called for SWIFT to terminate its business relationships with the Central Bank of Iran, the Sepah Bank, the Post Bank of Iran, the Bank Mellat, the Saderat Bank of Iran and all of Iran’s banking system. The political activists said SWIFT allowing Iran’s membership violated U.S. and E.U. financial sanctions against Iran, maintaining SWIFT was violation SWIFT’s own corporate rules.
2012 is the year the U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted to sanction SWIFT to pressure the financial telecommunications network to cut off the Iranian banks access to billions of dollars in revenue and spending. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee did not terminate Irans access to the Internet via the Department of Commerce’s IANA function.
One month later, the CEU, Council of the European Union voted to disconnect Iranian banks from the SWIFT network. SWIFT left other Iranian financial institutions connected. The U.S. Department of Treasury has implemented control over SWIFT, seizing monies being moved between two EU countries. A Danish businessman was accused of violation the U.S. Cuba embargo when the Danish businessman transferred $26,000 to a German bank for Cuban cigars imported to Germany.
Switzerland’s ban included restricting financial services. The United Nations has many entities located in Switzerland and Brussels. The United Nations BIC/SWIFT code is UNATU33. The Vatican’s Holy See Vatican City SWIFT numbers are Amminisstrazione Del Patrimonio Della Sede Apostolica is APDEVAVAXXX and Istituto Per Le Opere Di Religione is IOPRVAVXXXX.
SWIFT issued the U.N. New York City location Code and the Vatican Holy See location codes in consultation with the United States.
2012 is the year the US froze all property of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian financial institutions, as well as that of the Iranian government, within the United States.[40] The American view is that sanctions should target Iran's energy sector that provides about 80% of government revenues, and try to isolate Iran from the international financial system.[41]
2013 is the year the United States government blacklisted major Iranian electronics producers, Internet policing agencies, and the state broadcasting authority, in an effort to lessen restrictions of access to information for the general public. The sanctions were imposed to target Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, which is responsible for broadcast policy in Iran and oversees production of Iranian television and radio channels. The "Iranian Cyber Police" were targeted. The "Communications Regulatory Authority" was targeted. The U.S. Treasury Department said these entities were created to blocking Web sites deemed objectionable by the Iranian government, filter data and monitor Internet behavior, most likely to block out Voice Of America and other U.S. policy content shows.
2013 is the year the Guardian newspaper reported on the impact of the sanctions on Iran’s patients- cancer, HIV/Aids, haemophiliacs unable to get their drugs or sterilizing machines because sanctions barred western pharmaceutical companies from doing business with Iran.
2013 is the year the European Parliament passed their resolution telling Member states to stop ITU WCIT-12. WCIT is the World Conference on International Telecommunications. The EU resolution said "the ITU … is not the appropriate body to assert regulatory authority over the internet.”
2014 is the year the I.T.U. released a report was issued stating there are 113,609,510 Internet users in the Middle East. Iran has 48.6 million users. Iraq has 2,211,860 in a population of near 31,000,000. Afghanistan has 4,0005,414 users. The United Nations assigns and approves country codes for TLD, Top Level Domains including Iran’s, Iraq’s and Afghanistan’s country codes. In fact, the United Nations assigned and approved everyone’s country codes.
2014 is the year the SWIFT network interbank messaging rose to 15 million messages a day between its 9000 financial institutions in 209 countries.
2015, July 20, is when the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2231, setting the schedule to lift U.N. sanctions keeping the ability to re-impose the sanctions, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action pre-determined, if Iran violated the agreement.
2016 is the year, September is the month that IANA is going to be removed from America to the United Nations, Geneva Switzerland. It has been almost twenty, 20, years since 1998, ICANN, the profitable California non-profit has been operating the IANA under a contract to the Department of Commerce that does not appear to have gone out to competitive bid. ICANN’s contract with the Department of Commerce cycles in September.
The UN has formally and publicly begun its push for regulatory oversight, management and traffic flow of Internet Domain Names, IP addresses. The United Nations ambition is 1net.org, expansion of the United Nations I.T.U., Internet Telecommunications Union.
The United Nations wants IANA. IANA is a cash cow. IANA gives the UN what it seeks, data to feed the U.N. data program.
IANA, the Internet Assigned Number Authority, is a cash cow, heading to a billion projected to go to a trillion. The taxpayer funder agency that President Clinton approved going private, to be run by NEWCO, a hastily set up company that would be a non-profit. President Clinton’s non-profit ICANN has seen its “non-profit” leapfrog from $70 million to near ½ billion in almost two, 2, years with little sign of stopping. And TOR, too. TOR is the onion routing tool used to mask who goes where on the internet without being seen or tracked if one does not want to be seen or tracked. Even from home servers. Even communications sent to or from the State Department.