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by sandworm101 781 days ago
They also appear to be banning the country, not the people. People cannot play from Iran, but Iranians apparently remain free to play the game while outside the country. That suggests it is something to do with the provision of network services to Iran IPs rather than anything about the game itself being/sold used by Iranians.
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If this was the case, wouldn't the VPN work? Reddit OP said that it didn't.

> Even VPN doesn't work. Because Microsoft has linked Minecraft to your Microsoft account and it's hardcoded into it that I am iranian. I tried VPN, and it still said it's banned in my country.

source: https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/comments/1cckj2q/today_m...