Editorial: US Editors and Reviewers can no Longer Handle Submissions by Authors Employed by the Government of Iran: Is it Fair and Logical?

We have recently become aware that the office of foreign assets control (ofac) of the us department of the treasury has imposed new sanctions against iran. regulation 560.538 provides that us persons should not handle publishing services for written publications (whether journals or books) if any of the authors of the manuscript are employed by the government of iran.