# Claude (كلود)

> Claude is blocked in Syria, as of 2026-10-15.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: In Review
- Company: [Anthropic](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/anthropic.md)
- Categories: AI Assistants, AI Coding, AI Writing
- Official site: https://claude.ai
- Community votes: 2108
- Last updated: 2026-10-15
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/claude

## About

AI assistant by Anthropic for writing, analysis, coding, and research

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria. Outreach to Anthropic since February 2026 has reached only automated support and safeguards replies, and its support agent says it cannot pass the request to its policy team.

## Progress timeline

- 2026-09-26 — Company Responded (Community Updates). A request titled "unblock syria" sent to Anthropic's safeguards team received only an automated reply pointing to its Safeguards Center, Help Center and appeals form. No substantive reply.
- 2026-09-08 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). A second community volunteer wrote the same evening to Anthropic's privacy mailbox asking it to review Claude's geographic restriction on Syria, noting that Google has already updated its own policy for Gemini. No reply has been received.
- 2026-09-08 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). A community volunteer pressed Anthropic's support team to send the Syria country restriction on Claude to its legal and compliance team, citing the August 2026 rescission. The Fin AI agent said the request was documented but gave no contact channel and no case reference.
- 2026-09-03 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). Following Anthropic's redirection, the same volunteer wrote directly to Anthropic's regulator-inquiries mailbox requesting a compliance review of the Syria restriction on Claude. No reply had been received as of this writing.
- 2026-09-03 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). A community volunteer again asked Anthropic's support team to review the Syria restriction on Claude, citing the August 2026 rescission of Syria's state-sponsor-of-terrorism designation. Fin AI agent redirected the request to regulator-inquiries@anthropic.com.
- 2026-08-26 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). A community volunteer asked Anthropic's support team to escalate a Syria access review internally. Anthropic's Fin AI agent said it has no mechanism to forward feedback to the policy team, even informally, and pointed again to the supported-countries page.
- 2026-08-23 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). The same volunteer sent a further request to Anthropic's support team citing the Syria sanctions changes. Anthropic's Fin AI agent again said supported regions follow its own compliance and risk review and pointed to the supported-countries page.
- 2026-07-18 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). A community volunteer's multi-company outreach included Anthropic, requesting review of Claude's Syria restriction. Fin AI Agent could not confirm Syria's status and pointed to the supported-countries page and privacy@anthropic.com.
- 2026-04-05 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). A community volunteer emailed Anthropic's support team again requesting a compliance review to restore Claude access in Syria, citing the lifted US and EU sanctions. Anthropic's Fin AI agent sent only automated acknowledgements.
- 2026-03-30 — Follow-up Sent (Our Outreach). UnblockSyria's official follow-up noted eight weeks of silence since the first outreach and cited DeepSeek, Grammarly and Replit as fully accessible competitors in Syria. The automated reply again said the inbox is unmonitored.
- 2026-02-14 — Follow-up Sent (Community Updates). A community volunteer emailed Anthropic's support team again requesting Syria access be enabled, citing the lifted US and EU sanctions. Anthropic's Fin AI agent replied that the inbox is unmonitored.
- 2026-02-09 — Follow-up Sent (Our Outreach). UnblockSyria sent an official letter to Anthropic's support team requesting a compliance review of Claude's Syria IP restriction under the post-sanctions legal framework. The automated reply said the inbox is unmonitored.
- 2026-02-06 — Company Responded (Community Updates). Anthropic's Fin AI agent replied that the request had been received and that its Trust and Safety team would review the case and provide details once the review was complete, with no fixed timeline given.
- 2026-02-06 — Contacted Company (Community Updates). A community volunteer emailed Anthropic's support team requesting a review of the Syria access restriction on Claude, citing supporting documentation on the changed sanctions and export-control landscape.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

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- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/claude/timeline-entries?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/claude
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/claude.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/claude.md