Sanctions suck, and it's hard. I get a feeling some people here are like "well, if they don't like the sanctions, perhaps they should change their government!"
Ok, I do agree the original title of the thread was mislieading - "insulting" is not the word I'd use, because EA certainly didn't do it because they wanted to insult Iranian gamers. That's silly. But at least I can offer some sympathy and the rest of the forum should too, because they most likely have no fucking clue what it's like to live under sanctions and not be able to do anything about it.
People here have to realize that regime change in a country like Iran is very difficult and it's not like people in Iran could just wake up one day and decide they want new leadership. Like, in US, as terrible as Trump is, all Americans have to do is vote for the other person in the next election (with all the negatives of the electoral system, ok, but you get what I mean). In countries like Iran, that just isn't enough - because the regime will manipulate the elections, steal votes, declare martial law, make disobedient people loose the means to feed their families. They control all the media (and in ways that make Fox News seem liberal and fair), they make arrests, they lie and intimidate.
I know - coming out of communism, my country went straight into a new type of dictatorship and we ended up with sanctions roughly two decades ago. And this was a regime that was in many ways less powerful than the one in Iran and this was in Europe. Even with that, changing the regime took years and years of street protests, civil disobediance (and, tbh, outside help and influence, support, etc.) and it was painful and slow - and even after the change, most of the problems of corruption remained (but, at least, the sanctions were over). I don't see that happening in Iran in our lifetimes.
What I mean to say is - It's a dictatorship - the people can hardly make their government do anything, they can't change it on elections and protesting and civil disobediance will most likely end up with death.
So, basically, while I think Iranian regime is horrible, and while I am not qualified to say whether sanctions work or not - at least I can sympathise with people hit by them (especially when games can provide some escapism from their harsh reality).
I feel bad for them.