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More accurately, I suspect it's Aleppo and thus Syria, which is under sanctions by the US and European countries.


Yeah, this is almost certainly some AML provision that has gone amuck, but they'd rather inconvenience you in a silly way to prove that they were "doing their job" than to get themselves shut down due to sanctions.


Aren’t there towns in the US and elsewhere named for towns in other countries? This xenophobia is an albatross.


The people of Aleppo, Pennsylvania must have a lot of fun.




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