The US has changed a policy that had banned American publishers from working with dissident authors in certain counries. “The rule change by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control comes after Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi sued the United States because its economic embargo on Iran blocked U.S. publication of her memoirs. The new rule allows U.S. publishers to engage in ‘most ordinary publishing activities’ with people in Cuba, Iran and Sudan, while maintaining restrictions on interactions with government officials and agents of those countries.”