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December 21, 2017 Yemen’s Houthi rebels target journalists Yemen’s Houthi militants killed four journalists last wee... December 18, 2017 House Bill Elevates Civilian Cybersecurity Agency The House passed the... December 13, 2017 Iranian Budget Hints at British Ransom Payment This past weekend, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson departed... December 1, 2017 U.S. Calls for Oil Ban and Complete Diplomatic Isolation of North Korea The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday following North Korea’s third intercontinental ballist... November 22, 2017 Congress Supports Financial Transparency for Iranian Transactions The House Financial Services Committee approved last week the Strengthening Oversight of Iran’s... November 21, 2017 U.S. Government Warns of Continued North Korean Cyber Activities The U.S. government last week issued two technical alerts on North Korea&rs... November 16, 2017 Iran’s Repression of Foreign Journalists Intensifies Iran’s targeting of foreign journalists has intensified. In recent weeks and months, the regime has conducted cyber attacks against Iranian journalists abroad, launched a criminal investiga... November 9, 2017 U.S. Backs Saudi Claim about Iranian Missile Support to Yemeni Rebels Regional tensions escalated as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for an attempted... November 9, 2017 Turkey’s Premier Visits Washington Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is in Washington this week... November 8, 2017 Treasury Department Cuts Off Bank of Dandong The Treasury Department on Thursday issued its final rule barring a Chinese bank from the U.S. financial syste... November 6, 2017 Wakeup Call for Chinese Banks on North Korea Sanctions The Treasury Department on Thursday issued an advisory on North Korea’s us... November 3, 2017 The S-400: Erdogan’s Fail-safe Moscow and Ankara continue to signal that the $2.5-billion... November 2, 2017 House Passes Sanctions Targeting Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ballistic missile program and its enablers. The bill –... November 1, 2017 New UN Report Highlights Iran’s Continued Human Rights Abuses Iran’s repression of its own people has continued largely unabated, the United Nations indicated in a new report presented to the UN General Assembl... October 31, 2017 Erdogan’s Power Grab Continues with Municipalities The mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest metropolis with almost 15 million inhabitants,... October 27, 2017 North Korean Human Rights Abuses Both the State Department and a non-governmental human rights organization issued new reports yesterday on North Korea’s abhorrent human rights abuses. Concurrently, the Treasury Department... October 25, 2017 Congress Moves to Isolate Hezbollah and Sanction its Patrons This week, Congress will consider three pieces of legislation aimed at cutting off the funding streams that Hezbollah uses to fill it... October 20, 2017 Implications of the New IRGC Sanctions The U.S. Treasury designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) under Exec... October 16, 2017 Removing Sanctions While Retaining Leverage in Sudan Though President Trump’s decision to decertify th... October 11, 2017 Worst Crisis in Decades for Turkey and U.S. The U.S. and Turkey suspended visa services for each other’s citizens this weekend. The crisis repre... October 6, 2017 Diplomatic Spat Erupts Between Ankara and U.S. Over Arrest A controversy erupted this week between Washington and Ankara over Turkey’s arrest of a U.S. cons... October 5, 2017 Fearing an Independent Kurdistan, Erdogan Travels to Tehran Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan traveled to Iran on Wednesday for meetings with the... October 5, 2017 Iran’s GDP Growth Back to the Normal Level Iran’s Parliament Research Center (PRC), an official arm of the country’s legislature, or majlis, has forecast the coun... October 4, 2017 Time to Designate Hezbollah as a Transnational Criminal Organization Intended to fight transnational organized crime, Executive Orders 13581 and... October 3, 2017 IS Using Front Companies to Support Terrorism As the Islamic State (IS) has been beaten back in Iraq and ... September 29, 2017 Referendum Triggers Turkish Vitriol against Kurds – and Jews Iraqi Kurds voted overwhelmingly on Monday in favor of a referendum on independence for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) an... September 27, 2017 Preventing a “Fait Accompli” in Syria Secretary of State Rex Tillerson... September 20, 2017 Iran Is Not in ‘Technical Compliance’ with the JCPOA Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared on Sunday that Iran is in &ld... September 20, 2017 Regulators Struggling to Handle Illicit Finance Risks of Fintech Innovation Earlier this month, China’s financial aut... September 19, 2017 Israel Completes Largest Exercise in 20 Years, Setting Sights on Hezbollah Last Thursday, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) concluded its largest military... September 18, 2017 Rouhani Will Seek to Divide the West at the UN General Assembly Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will deliver his fifth annual address to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) this Wednesday. Rouhani is likely to emphasize tw... September 15, 2017 Turkish Officials Charged in Iran Sanctions-Busting Case U.S. authorities last week charged Turkey’s fo... September 14, 2017 IAEA Inspections in Iran under the JCPOA Bloomberg News reported a doubling of nuclear inspections in Ir... September 8, 2017 The Assad Regime’s Chemical Weapons Problem Israeli warplanes struck a suspected chemic... September 1, 2017 Turkish Public Lender Joins Erdogan’s Washington Lobbying Spree Turkey’s second-largest public lender Halkbank has reportedly... August 25, 2017 Iran and Turkey Agree on Opposing Kurdish Independence, but Not Much More Last week, Iran’s top military commander Major General Mohammad Bagheri made an unprecedented appearance... August 25, 2017 Turkey Trumps Up the Charges against the Imprisoned U.S. Pastor Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan today issued an emergency decree giving himself the authority to trade foreign citizens held in Tu... August 7, 2017 U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Syria Will Fail Without U.S. Leverage Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated last week that the U.S. has “chosen the theater in Syria as a place in which... August 3, 2017 Russian Troops Deploy Near Syria-Israel Border In late July, Russia deployed four military police battalions to monitor a pair of safe zones in Syria, including a southwestern... August 2, 2017 Iran Ramps Up Purchases of Commercial Aircraft from U.S. and Europe Last June, a trio of Iranian airlines announced plans to purchase a total of 83 new planes from Airbus an... August 2, 2017 The U.S. Sanctions Venezuela’s President On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The designation came a... July 31, 2017 Making Sense of Iran’s Latest Satellite-Launch Vehicle Test Late last week, Iran formally inaugurated the Imam Khomeini Space Launch Center by conducting the second test of its “Simorgh” rocke... July 27, 2017 How the Use of Human Shields Violates International Law Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic State, and other terrorist groups have a demonstrated propensity to use... July 27, 2017 Congress Moves to Reassert Itself in Iran Policy Oversight This week, Congress moved to sanction Iran, North Korea, and Russia in an attempt to reestablish the utility of financial restraints as a means of challenging the malign behavior of hostile regim... July 21, 2017 Istanbul’s Iconic Synagogue Besieged by Islamist Nationalists An ultranationalist-cum-Islamist group... July 20, 2017 Tehran Sentences U.S. Hostage to 10 Years in Prison Tehran has sentenced another Western national to a lengthy prison term on... July 20, 2017 New Sanctions Highlight the Need to Counter Iran’s Non-Nuclear Threats In a joint effort on Tuesday, the Departments of State,... July 18, 2017 Congress and the Administration Need to Reinvigorate HIFPA On December 18, 2015, the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act (HIFPA) was signed into law by President Obama after yea... July 14, 2017 Turkey Defies Coup, But Not One-Man Rule Last year, on July 15, the Turkish people defied a group of rogue soldiers who attempted a bloody coup d'état, killing... July 14, 2017 Hezbollah Threat to the U.S. Homeland Resurfaces In an explosive filing by the Department of Justice, two suspected Hezbollah operatives were...

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