Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has decreed that any technological cooperation with Israel, including the use of Israeli software and hardware is prohibited, the state-run Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Rouhani ordered the Iranian Interior, Intelligence, Foreign, and Defense ministries, as well as the Supreme National Security Council and the judiciary, to implement a law approved last week by Tehran's parliament and the Guardian Council – an oversight body that ensures laws adhere to Islamic – that aims to "confront the hostile acts of the Zionist regime against peace and security."
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"Based on the first article of the bill, all Iranian bodies are required to use the country's regional and international capacities to confront the Zionist regime's measures, especially its warmongering and terrorist moves, siege (of Gaza), settlement construction, displacing the Palestinian people and occupation of countries' lands, including Golan," Hossein Naqavi Hosseini a member of the Iranian National Security and Foreign Policy Commission told Fars.
He further said that "any cooperation or spying for the Zionist regime is equal to enmity towards God and corruption on earth," and that using Israeli software or hardware on Iranian platforms was forbidden.
According to Iranian media, the new bill also bans "transferring the goods produced by the Israeli companies via the Iranian territories as well as the participation of the Israeli nationals and firms in the exhibitions held inside Iran."
It also requires the government to pave the ground for the establishment of a virtual embassy in the Palestinian territories.
"The Foreign Ministry is required to make necessary arrangements to form the Islamic Republic of Iran's virtual embassy or consulate in Palestine and submit the results for approval to the cabinet," the bill said.
