Googling sanction targets

The remarks by a senior United States official on Monday once again attests to the fact that the world's sole superpower is using the Internet to serve its politics.

Adam Szubin, director of the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), told Reuters that Washington's adjustment in its sanctions against countries like Iran and Cuba last week paved the way for US companies to export services and software over the Internet.

Szubin made it clear that by ushering in greater Internet freedom, the so-called "smart sanctions" will serve Washington's foreign policy goals by instigating democratic change in these countries. In other words, he meant regime change.