Sattar Hashemi, Minister of Communications, announced on his personal page on the X social network that the iPhone registry problem was solved. Hashemi also said that the iPhone import regulations will be announced soon.
According to Iran digital economy annotation, while the import of iPhone 14 and later was banned and Apple phones were not registered for more than 2 years, Sattar Hashemi has announced the solution to this problem on his X page. Hashemi wrote about this: “The iPhone registry problem was solved with the planning of the federal government, the support of the honorable president and the active follow-up of the Ministry of Communications. I believe that other problems of the cyberspace and people’s demands can be solved with the work of experts, creating consensus, without fuss and uproar.”
After announcing the liberalization of iPhone imports, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology wrote in another post on the X social network: “With today’s decision of the government board and the lifting of the ban, which was achieved with the support of the Honorable Legal Deputy of the President and the Honorable Minister Samt, the details and regulations related to the import of iPhones It will be announced as soon as possible.”
Since the summer of 2020, the issue of banning the import of smartphones with a price higher than 300 Euros has been raised in Iran. After that, restrictions on phones with a price of 600 dollars and above, with the Apple brand at the top of them, were tightened, which ultimately led to the ban on the import of this company’s phones. Even the members of the 90th Parliament Commission promised in early 2022 that by the middle of that year, the import of full iPhones will be stopped. The main reason for these restrictions was the lack of foreign exchange resources and the need to prioritize the import of goods.
After the import ban, the iPhone registry issue has been one of the hot topics in the field of information technology. At the beginning of his tenure as Minister of Communications, Sattar Hashemi announced that the decision on the iPhone 14 and 15 registry is the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade.
According to the latest decision of the government board which was announced in June this year, if the restrictions are removed, the commercial profit of phones with the Apple brand will be 96%.
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