Could you move to UAE and incorporate there? Your wife’s medical qualifications are likely valid, you’ll be close to home, and there are places there it’s possible to live cheaply. As long as it’s a genuine Emirati company rather than a front for an Iranian one, you should be fine?
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign shareholder (which I thought was legal for non-US persons) That structure is explicitly illegal because you are an Iranian national. It does not matter whether you are a contracto…
UPDATE: I'm pulling back from seeking Western partnerships. Multiple commenters have explained that even the "contractor + equity" structure violates sanctions and is illegal. I genuinely didn't understand this - I thought it was a gray area. It's not. I'm not asking anyone to break the law or take legal risk. That was naive on my part. Based on helpful suggestions in this thread, I'm now focusing on: - India (no san…
Best of luck, the product seems pretty cool.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I see a lot of negativity in this thread and I’m not sure why… Because it's a request for someone to violate sanctions for them. They are specifically asking for someone to set up Stripe, take on the legal risk of violating international sanctions, and forward the money to them. > Yes there are obvious hurdles for people in “the west,” but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The "it" that is being requested is not a…
I’ve known many talented engineers who know nothing about business, what’s legal or not, and I politely think this is likely one of those cases. The person put in a ridiculous amount of work, and is trying to think of anything that could work. Maybe those seemed like the simplest possible solutions, and so they listed them. I think it’s worth it to give them a little bit of slack, and assume their intentions are whol…
> I’ve known many talented engineers who know nothing about business, what’s legal or not, and I politely think this is likely one of those cases.
Imagine for a second if Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical engineers had this complete lack of responsibility, accountability, and liability in the work they do. The fact that people here are even offering serious advice that this guy stop what he's doing and seek legal help is going above and beyond
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#114Hello friend, Considering this all to be truthful, it seems you have fallen for the startup mythology - I know because I have been there too. Maybe you can make it work, who knows, but the chances are slim - even more because of your nationality. Don't all-in in this, protect yourself and your family. Don't believe those hard-working startup stories, most of them in reality are really luck or contacts, nothing to do…
Hi gverrilla,
Thank you very much for your advice, living where I live is survival, I will try to do anything I can, but I made this and put a lots of times and effort, I really want to try to get is somewhere, I never thought of out side of Iran, but again paying for LLM in dollar and getting paid in the worse currency in the world will not work
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#115I don’t get it. I clicked the demo link but there’s nothing to try, only a home page with some AI generated images? Even if this were legal it feels like a pitch for a scam…
AI generated home page. AI generated images. No demo. Comments full of AI-translated English.
Either this is a scam or an FBI honeypot.
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#116Thanks for sharing this. I can’t legally help you either but your story was meaningful for me. I have a ton of respect for Iranian folks and I hope the relations between our two countries can get better. Best of luck to you.
Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
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#118The AI scene is oversaturated. Every last huckster and shill is all AI this and AI that. Just standing out and getting noticed is a problem.
I agree to some degree but I started learning about ai 16 years ago in university, there is just two things, it really helps now days for coding and the tech is getting better, about 3 years ago I could not create anything like this about 3 years ago.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having empathy for people is good. Letting that empathy lead you into violating international sanctions to funnel money to a sanctioned country is decidedly not a good idea. Requesting that other people sign up for Stripe accounts and send you the money in violation of sanctions is bad. The other person risks extreme legal consequences including prison sentences for deliberately and openly violating sanctions. The co…
You obviously didn't read my comment about someone helping him get out of Iran. IF he's out of Iran, works in a company with a founder or investor he's not violating any laws.
I read your comment.
Immigrating to a new country isn't something you do on a whim. It takes a very long time (years) and it's not really cheap. It's not a solution to the OP's problem.
The OP wasn't asking for help leaving their country. They were making a specific ask to violate sanctions.
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#120Me: I built this insane 3D multilingual AI avatar platform with real-time conversation, full enterprise stack, 47 languages, and Unreal Engine You: Can bypass US Treasury sanctions and open a Stripe account
It does pattern match to the Spanish Prisoner scam, with extra FinCEN violations thrown in.
An extra reason for the victim not to go to the cops!