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In Iran there are alternatives to many services. There are domestic cloud providers, a domestic android marketplace, there was a domestic Apple marketplace (and will show up again when Apple opens the platform to alternative stores), alternative video sharing platform, etc.

Working in/with Iran has other difficulties in addition to sanctions. Iranian government has total control over what services from outside Iran are accessible to Iranians. They also use this control elaborately, in some fields whitelisting services rather than blacklisting them. So if you want to work with Iran from outside, you are always at the mercy of the government to block you.

If working from inside, you are under pressure to share people's private information with the government en masse. You have no way to resist that. The courts are puppets, price of resistance can be anywhere from takeover of your business, to prison, to death.

Oh and from outside, you have the problem of exchange rate: due to 40+years of 40+% inflation, what you earn from there cannot even cover your costs outside the country, unless you do the entire business from another country with similar economy.