David Horovitz, editor of the Times of Israel, has reported that Iran’s Majlis in late May passed a law that bans “any cooperation” with Israel, which includes the use of any Israeli technology, including computer software and hardware. He has fun listing all the things that Iran, in its orgy of anti-Israel hate, if it obeys its own laws, will have to be doing without.
Here is Horovitz’s astonishing list of Israeli advances the mullahs will now have to forgo:
Ahead of its annual al-Quds Day orgy of Israel-bashing on Friday, Iran’s parliament has unanimously passed legislation banning “any cooperation” with Israel — specifically including the use of Israeli computer hardware and software — as a crime against God…
Under the legislation passed Monday, any cooperation with “the Zionist regime” is henceforth to be considered “equal to enmity towards God and corruption on earth,” according to the semi-state news site Fars. “All Iranian bodies are required to use the country’s regional and international capacities to confront the Zionist regime’s measures,” it reported, and, specifically, “activities of the Israeli software platforms in Iran and using its hardware and software products is forbidden.”
Rather than protesting this latest legislative iteration of the ayatollahs’ relentless and doomed efforts to precipitate Israel’s demise, the free world might consider applauding the ban, if not actively demanding its enforcement, in those areas where it does not directly spell the deaths of innocents.
Because, given the centrality of Israeli innovation and technology to so many aspects of modern life, the new anti-Israel legislation, if implemented as required by the Iranian parliament, will set Iran back decades, raise Iranian public disaffection with the repressive ayatollahs to new heights, and likely spell the demise of the brutal, rapacious and cynical regime.
For a start, if the solemnly enacted legislation of the Majlis is to be regarded as anything other than hot air, Iran must now shut down all of its computers. They all feature Intel chips and/or technologies designed and/or developed in Israel…
Of course, Iran will henceforth have rather less need for computers anyway, since its new legislation means it will also have to stop using the internet. That’s because routers produced by Cisco Systems are a core component of the internet’s backbone — transferring information between computer networks at dizzying speeds — and Cisco Israel is central to the US multinational’s ongoing router development….
But then Iran would be immensely constrained in using the internet anyhow, since, under the new legislation, it’s hard to see which search engines law-abiding Iranians would be allowed to use. Google does enormous amounts of R&D work in Israel, across a wide array of products. One small example: “Google Suggest,” which starts searching for you even as you type in your request — developed in Israel.
To make Google still more unacceptable to the Iranian regime, its two founders, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, are both Jewish. So is the founder of Facebook. So is one of the founders of Microsoft. So is the founder of Cisco Systems. Oh dear.
As for the Bing search engine, well, that’s a Microsoft product. And as Microsoft’s then-CEO Steve Ballmer famously declared on a visit to Israel in 2008 (17 years after the firm set up its first R&D division outside the US here), “Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company.” (Hailing Israel’s “remarkable” tech on a subsequent trip four years later, Ballmer noted that Microsoft employs more workers per capita in Israel than anywhere else on earth.)
Cloud storage of data is going to be a problem from now on too, since the technology behind it is an Israeli specialty. Indeed generally, says Saul Singer, co-author of the bestselling “Start-Up Nation” who helped me with a lot of the material for this article, Israel is “big on routers and chips and all the core infrastructure that drives technology.”
The Iranians will also now obviously have to hang up their smartphones. Going back to Motorola, which was doing R&D in Israel even before Intel, cellphones are riddled with Israeli tech.
In fact all of Iran’s international connections — communications, banking, freight shipping, even its vital oil exports — are going to require careful examination by the Majlis, for fear of cooperation with us Zionists.
Depending on how stringently it interprets its law, Iran may have to unilaterally constrain its already sanctioned international banking interactions, because numerous major international banks — Citibank, RBS, Deutsche Bank et al — do R&D in Israel, have bought Israeli companies, and/or use Israeli cyber systems.
Shipping is going to be a problem, since Freightos — the Expedia of global freight shipping — is, well, Israeli.
Iran’s vital oil exports are going to take a massive hit: The international oil refineries that handle its black gold rely on Israeli-developed monitoring systems, Israeli cyber defense systems and other protective technology developed in Israel…
What will happen now if Iranians really do attempt to follow their new law, and have nothing to do with Israeli advances in computer hardware and software, in cybersecurity, smartphones, smart cars, medical equipment, innovation of all kinds, astonishing in their number and variety? They will soon find themselves back in 1970, long before computers were in every home, long before the Internet. They will be a Muslim variant on the Luddites, and on the Amish, while the rest of the world continues to progress technologically, and with tiny Israel still churning out one technological advance after another.
I think it would be wonderful if the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decided to strictly enforce the latest anti-Israel legislation. No Israeli-made technology to be found in either Iran’s hardware or its software will mean for Iran no computers at all. And the Iranians would have to do without so much else (see the long list provided by David Horovitz). Having passed legislation banning the use of any technology originating in Israel, the Iranians will no doubt claim to be capable of creating their own. This is a development not to deplore, but to welcome. It will be a useful lesson to the Iranian regime on its own failures, which Iranians will unavoidably compare with the massive success of Israel as the “Start-Up Nation.” How long could the Iranian economy, or society, last without computers? How long would it take the Iranians to build hardware and software that had nothing to do with Israeli technological advances and that would be comparable to what they are using today?
The mullahs’ regime will quickly realize the folly it has just legislated, in insisting that Iran must do without Israeli technology, and it may simply ignore, or find a way to get around, its own laws. In doing so, it will hold itself up to the ridicule of the Iranian people. Or alternatively, the fanatics who run the regime will insist on observing the legislation that prohibits the use of Israeli technology, thereby dealing a knockout blow to Iran’s economy, and that will earn them not mockery alone, but also rage from a populace compelled to live without all the technological advances to which Israeli scientists have contributed, and thus without the economic and social well-being that naturally flow from those advances. Either way, because of the new legislation from the Majlis, the regime in Tehran has now asked for terrible trouble. Does it want to look weak, if it repeals or ignores its own new law, or surpassingly stupid, if it upholds the new law? We’ll soon find out.
Kesselman says
The mullahs impose on themselves a boycott all too convenient to the free world. Then we don’t have to force it upon them. LOL!
David says
Another big win is that most of their weapons will not work, result!
Dude says
Good. If it were me, I would build a wall around the desert and not let anyone or anything in or out. If they want us all gone, then arrange that illusion for them. We’ll let them tear each other apart like they have so much enjoyed forever. It should only take a century before they’re gone.
david morrison says
Agreed ! Build that wall , send their rejects all back to their caves , and never let them out ! Islam is a self destroying cult !
gravenimage says
Islam needs to be isolated from the civilized world again.
Buraq says
Islam, the so-called religion, has a lot of ‘Jewish’ content — the Torah and the Talmud, for example. In that case, Iran should ditch Islam, it’s riddled with Zionist stuff.
gravenimage says
Yes–they completely skipped stuff like the Golden Rule, though.
Westman says
Dependency has always been a product of Islam whether exploiting jizya, slavery, or zakat. Essentially, being useless since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, it has become dependent on Western technology that is full spectrum from Autos to Zuckerberg.
How long would the Regime last if it actually prohibited Iranians from using anything containing Israeli technology? Even the IRGC would overthrow the Mullahs. Now that the Iranian military is clearly seeing the lack of wisdom and the stupidity among the Mullahs, it might happen anyway.
Wellington says
The Iranian thugs who are ruining Iran sure do spend a lot on American and Israeli flags. And flag burning, you know, is always a sign that something’s missing. There’s a great deal missing in Iran.
Bikinis not Burkas says
It is called intelligence!
FYI says
A name that strikes terror into the hearts of the mullahs..
STUXNET
“Believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of Iran”
{Wikipedia}*
I have to say I was really impressed by the programming:causing those centrifuges{which of course are for innocent NUCLEAR “research”}to tear themselves apart.Ingenious!
*Not necessarily recommending wikipedia:any time I type in Jihad Watch I get wikipedia informing me that Jihad Watch “..has been described as an anti-muslim conspiracy website”
Let me guess who might have ‘described’ it thus?…is it..is it.. MUSLIMS,Lefties,the PC police by any chance?
Jim says
Reminds me of the time that Los Angeles County schools didn’t like the fact that computers have “master” and “slave” circuits in the computers, and so they ordered the covering up of all such words INSIDE OF ALL COMPUTERS IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM!
I actually wrote a letter to the superintendent of LA Schools, telling him that the money spent on such a venture would be better spent on new computers which met their desired standard. Also, some computers could get damaged in the process of removing the cover and putting a piece of tape over every occurrence of the words “master” and “slave” inside of the computer (sometimes this would require putting tape on the computer’s motherboard).
Sorry to use Snopes as a source, but it’s the only place I could find where this story is confirmed.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/masterslave/
gravenimage says
Yes–more stupidity.
David says
So I guess they will next want master & slave cylinders removed from cars etc. Idiots educating our children.
David Donaldson says
It is amazing and frightening to see idiots in charge of our kids education.
R Russell says
I wont be surprised if they still continue to use it but say Israel stole it from them.
Jim says
Here’s the story about LA Schools, to which I referred above, on cnn.com:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/
gravenimage says
Iran Decides to Do Without Any Israeli Hardware or Software
………….
Yeah, I doubt it. They’ll just buy these through third parties.
I wish Muslims *really would* have to do without everything invented by Jews.
Fan of JNS dot org says
Qatar’s Al Jazeera [News] Network
Broadcasts Islamist Cleric’s Appeal to ‘Kill Jews’:
https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/05/28/qatars-al-jazeera-network-broadcasts-islamist-clerics-appeal-to-kill-jews/
Fan of JNS dot org says
“In medicine, as early as [year] 1850, Jewish scientists
argued for the existence of micro-organisms which
cause contagious disease, laid the foundations for
modern heart therapy, bacteriology, and clinical pathology.
They first advanced theories that chemical processes
within the cell were responsible for glandular activity,
proposed serum immunity for contagious diseases,
discovered phagocytes, pioneered in the chemistry
of muscles, and made blood transfusions possible
through the discovery of the different blood types.
It was Jewish scientists who advanced the first hope
that man had of ever finding a cure for venereal disease,
through Nesser’s [usually spelled Neisser] discovery
of the gonococcus, Wasserman’s test for the early
detection of syphilis [in year 1906], and Erlich’s
first cure for it, with his drug, salvarsan [in year 1910
– Salvarsan is now known as Arsphenamine].”
SOURCE: Jews, God, and History
(chapter 25, page 336) by Max I. Dimont,
year 1962, Simon and Shuster, New York,
ISBN-10: 0451529405 ISBN-13: 978-0451529404
NOTE: August Paul von Wassermann
(21 February 1866 – 16 March 1925)
Search wikipedia for: Venereal_Disease_Research_Laboratory_test
NOTE: Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
(22 January 1855, – 30 July 1916)
Search wikipedia for: Albert_Ludwig_Sigesmund_Neisser
NOTE: Paul Ehrlich
(14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915)
Search wikipedia for: Paul_Ehrlich
NOTE: Search wikipedia for: Arsphenamine
Fan of JNS dot org says
“The remarkable resemblances among [ancient] Roman law,
present-day American law, and Jewish jurisprudence
in Biblical days, is more than mere coincidence.
The Jews devised, four centuries before Christ,
a legal system based on the dignity of man and
individual equality before the law, while Europe
still had trial-by-ordeal as late as the 15th century.”
………
“The accused [according to Jewish Law] was
presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
He had a right to counsel and to a proper trial.
He had a right to call witnesses, to confront
his accusers, and to testify on his own behalf.
He could not be compelled to testify against himself,
and could not be placed in double jeopardy.
The accused individual was permitted to appeal,
or to have others appeal on his behalf,
if new evidence should turn up.”
SOURCE: Jews, God, and History
by Max I. Dimont (chapter 5, page 80)
year 1962, Simon and Shuster, New York,
ISBN-10: 0451529405 * ISBN-13: 978-0451529404
fan of JNS dot org says
“A French-Jewish mathematician an astronomer,
Immanuel Bonfils, is credited with inventing the
decimal system in the 14th century, 150 years
before it was accepted by European scientists.
His works introduced new mathematical concepts,
and his astronomical tables were in wide use by mariners.”
SOURCE: Jews, God, and History
by Max I. Dimont (chapter 22, bottom of page 269),
year 1962, Simon and Shuster, New York,
ISBN-10: 0451529405 * ISBN-13: 978-0451529404
fan of JNS dot org says
“In that same [14th] century, Levi ben Gerson
[or Gershom] criticized the faulty methodology
of contemporary scientific theories and introduced
a new trigonometric system which became
the basis for modern trigonometry.
He also invented the quadrant known as
Jacob’s Staff, which was used by
such navigators as:
Magellan, Columbus, and Vasco de Gama.”
SOURCE: Jews, God, and History
by Max I. Dimont (chapter 22, page 270),
year 1962, Simon and Shuster, New York,
ISBN-10: 0451529405 * ISBN-13: 978-0451529404
NOTE Rabbi Levi ben Gershon wrote
a commentary on the Bible, in Hebrew, which is,
even today, still considered to be one of the
great classical Bible commentaries, and
is still sometimes studied by Jews alive today.
fan of JNS dot org says
Judaism is the ONLY faith that NEVER approved of military force to gain converts.
Jews are the ONLY people who NEVER had a tradition of hunting animals for sport.
Jews are the ONLY people who survived for 18 centuries without an army of any kind.
Jews are the ONLY people whose ancestral language (Hebrew) became the spoken language of a technologically-advanced nation of millions of highly-educated people (Israel), after having been categorized as a Dead Language for more than 1500 years.
Israel is the ONLY nation in the world that has more trees than it did 100 years ago.
USB chips and critical parts of cell phone technology were invented in Israel.
fan of JNS dot org says
Famous Jewish Inventors from:
Diaspora by Werner Keller:
Siegfried Marcus, inventor of the gasoline engine,
built a functional automobile in 1875.
Fritz Haber won the 1918 Nobel Prize for
inventing a process for producing ammonia
from air, which assured Germany’s supply
of munitions during the First World War.
David Schwartz built a functional airship
constructed from aluminum, which flew
from Berlin on November 3, 1897.
Heinrich Hertz generated electric waves
for the first time in 1886, which laid
the foundation for radio technology.
Paul Ehrlich, invented the first effective
medicinal treatment for syphilis. He also made
a decisive contribution to the development of
an antiserum to combat diphtheria and conceived
a method for standardizing therapeutic serums.
In 1908, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine for his contributions to immunology.
Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis.
Albert Einstein, created the special theory of
relativity in 1905, the general theory of relativity
in 1916, and won the Nobel Prize in 1921.
SOURCE: Diaspora (pages 326 to 329) by Werner Keller
fan of JNS dot org says
Jewish Inventors and Their Inventions
condensed from: Image Magazine, November 2014, page 40
Advances in wireless communications and
anti-jamming devices for American Navy
torpedoes were made by Hedy Lamarr,
the famous actress of MGM’s Golden Age.
Duracell Batteries were invented by Samuel Ruben.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (MRI) was
invented by Isidor Isaac Rabi.
The Ballpoint Pen was invented by Laszlo Biro.
The Barbie Doll was invented by Ruth Marianna Handler.
The Camera Phone was invented by Philippe Kahn.
The Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics was
invented by Dr. Abraham Nemeth.
The Teddy Bear was invented by Morris and Rose Michtom.
The TV Remote was invented by Robert Adler.
The Uzi Submachine Gun was invented by Uzi Gal.
Video Games were invented by Ralph H. Baer.
dhans says
Enough!!! The Arabs will compromise and just ban Barbie Dolls. OK??? To say they can’t have nuclear bombs, because a Jew was behind the fundamental physics is just unfair.
gravenimage says
Good posts–thanks.
fan of JNS dot org says
“Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961), a [Jewish] grandmaster
from Poland, is generally considered to have been the
finest rook-and-pawn [chess endgame] expert of his time.
His handling of these positions has instructed
entire generations who followed him, and
this legacy now belongs to chess heritage.”
SOURCE: Chess for Dummies 2nd Edition
(chapter 14, page 237) by James Eade
(an American chess master), year 2005 CE, ISBN 0-7645-5003-9
QUOTE FROM WIKIPEDIA:
“Rubinstein was Jewish, and his family
planned for him to become a Rabbi.”
fan of JNS dot org says
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“It is true that the American legal system derives
much of its content from the Old Testament
[also known as the Jewish Bible or Tanach]…
When we were growing up, my friends and I would
take great pride in discovering the Jewish sources
of American laws, such as: the privilege against
self-incrimination, the requirement of two witnesses
for certain types of crime, and the very idea that
punishment must be proportionate to the crime committed.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 10, page 318) year 1991 by Little Brown & Co
ISBN: 9780316181372 * ISBN: 0316181374
fan of JNS dot org says
Mr. Ali Adi [an Arab who lives in Israel] said:
“The truth, which the entire Arab world already
acknowledges, that the Israeli Army is
more humane and considerate than the
Arab armies, fills me with pride.”
SOURCE:
I Embrace My Israeli Arab Identity
by Ali Adi 2019 September 1
===================================
Lord Ian Livingston of England said:
“Whilst the Israeli Defense Forces are not
perfect, the obsession of focusing on them
despite being the most moral and professional
army in the Middle East is very strange.”
SOURCE: Ten Baroness Tonge
Pilloried at House of Lords Session She Initiated
on Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Children
by Benjamin Kerstein, 2019 July 8, The Algemeiner
fan of JNS dot org says
“The loxodrome or rhumb line is a path based
on mathematical concepts that is of great help
to navigators. It was invented by Pedro Nunes
[born 1502, died 1578], a Portuguese Jewish
mathematician who was forcibly converted
to Catholicism as a child during the time of
the Inquisition. His grandchildren were
accused of secretly practicing Judaism.”
SOURCE: The Math Book
(page 116) by Clifford A. Pickover,
year 2009, Sterling Publishers, New York
===================================
“Georg Alexander Pick [born 1859, died 1942]
is famous for Pick’s Theorem, his delightfully simple
theorem for determining the area of a digital polygon.
When Nazi troops invaded Austria in 1938,
he fled to Prague because he was a Jew.
When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia
in 1942, they sent him to the Theresienstadt
concentration camp, where he died.”
SOURCE: The Math Book
(page 294) by Clifford A. Pickover,
year 2009, Sterling Publishers, New York
fan of JNS dot org says
“Fractional dimensions called Hausdorff Dimensions
were invented by Felix Hausdorff [born 1868, died 1942].
He was a Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Bonn and was one of the founders of modern topology
and was famous for his work in functional analysis and set theory.
His abstract mathematics was denounced as Jewish,
useless, and un-German. In 1942, when he was about
to be sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis,
he committed suicide.”
SOURCE: The Math Book
(page 334) by Clifford A. Pickover,
year 2009, Sterling Publishers, New York
===================================
“Austrian Jew Curt Herzstark [born 1902, died 1988]
invented the Curta Calculator, which is considered
by many historians to be the first commercially
successful portable mechanical calculator.
In 1943 he was sent to the Buchenwald
concentration camp, where the Nazis demanded
that he help them make a calculator device.”
SOURCE: The Math Book
(page 396) by Clifford A. Pickover,
year 2009, Sterling Publishers, New York
fan of JNS dot org says
The advanced mathematical concept called
Outer Billiards was invented by Bernhard
Hermann Neumann [born 1909, died 2002].
When the Nazis came to power in 1933,
he understood the dangers of being a Jew
and fled to Amsterdam and then to Cambridge.
SOURCE: The Math Book
(page 416) by Clifford A. Pickover,
year 2009, Sterling Publishers, New York
fan of JNS dot org says
Mastermind is a code breaking game invented
in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz [born 1938],
an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert.
Mastermind was significant partly due to the
long stream of research the game triggered.
SOURCE: The Math Book
(page 442) by Clifford A. Pickover,
year 2009, Sterling Publishers, New York
===================================
In 1977, MIT scientists Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir
and Leonard Adleman suggested that large
prime numbers could be used to guard messages.
SOURCE: The Math Book
(page 464) by Clifford A. Pickover,
year 2009, Sterling Publishers, New York
NOTE: This is now an important
part of modern computer information security.
Bikinis not Burkas says
Do they use Biro pens?
Bíró was born to a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary,