Is Saudi Government Ban on FaceTime a lie?!

Question

I have browsed apple communities for the reason of banning facetime from iPhones sold in Saudi and the answer from Apple always blame the government of Saudi for imposing this ban and request customers to complain to their government.
When users do that and call the CITC, which is the Saudi government agency concerned with regulating such issues, they inform them that no such ban exists in Saudi and so does the three service providers in Saudi. I have checked the CITC legislation and found no ban on facetime or similar services. However, what is known for sure is that the government of neighbouring UAE actually imposes a ban on facetime and similar services.
Apple has complied to its requirements by removing facetime from phones sold in UAE. The reason I am mentioning this is because all phones sold in Saudi mentions UAE in the documentation that comes with the phone and not Saudi. I suspect that Apple sells the iPhones models with the facetime ban in both Saudi and UAE with the ban actually existing only in UAE and hence imposing facetime indiscrimently on Saudi users. I hope this is not true but the reality is that the Saudi government claims that it does not ban facetime and Apple has not provided any proof of anything otherwise.
Nevertheless, even if facetime was banned in Saudi or any other country I think this should be imposed through the carriers and not through the actual phone. Currently in both Saudi and UAE, customers buy their phones from other places and enjoy facetime using the services of the carriers of both Saudi and UAE which should not be the case knowing that a ban against this service actually exist in those countries. Whereas in the otherhand if somebody buys an iphone from Saudi and uses it elsewhere facetime will still be blocked although the ban (if exists) applies only in those countries and on using the service and not having the capability of using it in other countries. 

Answer 1

I think Apple knows what it is doing. It is the Saudi government that must be suing Apple for lying about the whole matter. And I think the CITC is heading in that direction to clear the matter once and for all. Apple does have the right to deny its Saudi customers facetime (even for a reason which is not justified) but it has no right to blame it on other governments or agencies.