Iran is very upset because Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), does not have an official representative in the country to respond to any problems that the company's products have, and this upset could lead to the banning of the sale of the terminals iPhone in the country and the confiscation of those in stores.
The move aims to combat smartphone traffic in the country, the government wanting all smartphones to be registered in a special database, terminals that are not present in it will be blocked from accessing local mobile phone networks, confiscation to the unsold, still being a strange measure.
The problem that everyone sees with this system is related to the fact that Iran could use that database to monitor users, or their conversations, or to deny the access of certain mobile terminals to mobile networks, which seen quite often in the country.
Basically, Iran wants more control over citizens who use smartphones and wants to know how many and how many mobile terminals they have, and those from Apple are not too interested in being subjugated in this way, so there is a chance that in Cupertino takes the decision to ignore the government's request and not appoint an official representative in the country.
If Apple will not register an official representative in Iran within the next few days, all iPhones will be collected from the market. For anti-smuggling purposes, Iran has started a project, running under the president's office, to ban smuggled mobile phones. The scheme, which will start later this week, will require all mobile phones to be registered with Iran's telecommunications user database.
Iran is just one of the countries in the Middle East that is trying to completely control its citizens in order to prevent the emergence of uprisings aimed at removing oppressive regimes, and Apple has an extremely difficult decision in front of it, millions of Iranians are currently using iPhone terminals .
