Would Mark Zuckerberg Appear in Court in Iran?

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Sometimes strange things happen in local court cases against large multinational companies that are based in the United States and elsewhere. Reports are out, sourcing the ISNA news outlet, that a judge in Iran has issued an order for Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) to appear in court. The charge is about complaints that applications such as Instagram and WhatsApp violate privacy.

The obvious question is would Zuckerberg dare go appear in court in Iran? Before you even contemplate a yes/no/undecided answer, the United States does not force people to go testify or make any appearance of any sort in Iran.

This is also not the first such order out of courts in Iran for top officials to appear. To the best of our knowledge, no appearance “requests” or orders have resulted in the concerned party appearing.

Many social media and information sites have been banned in Iran. Some are still used by other means, and some entities or operations have remained in operation.

The odds of Mark Zuckerberg appearing in court anywhere in Iran are about one in a million. What is interesting is how a nation that is largely closed off to the world even bothers summoning figures that it knows will not appear. Most people inside of Iran at the ground level would of course expect that no appearance would come of it.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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