Google is exempting users in US-sanctioned countries, including Iran, from the new Android developer identity-verification regime, so Iranian users can still sideload APK files without the new restrictions. Iranian developers, unable to complete identity verification, still cannot distribute apps internationally; their apps will install without friction only on devices in sanctioned regions.
Evidence status is semantic, not decorative, see Methodology for how verification tiers are defined.
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