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June 23, 2022
Treasury Targets Iranian Sanctions-Busting Network as Nuclear Talks Remain Stalled
The Biden administration last week sanctioned a network of Iranian petrochemical producers and related front companies, a response to the deadlock in negotiations with Tehran over a return to the 2015 nuclear...
June 17, 2022
Across Party Lines, Senators Tell Biden to Get Tough on Assad
At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, senators from across the political spectrum pressed the Biden administration to isolate Syria’s criminal regime and fully enforce the...
June 16, 2022
Iran Further Inhibits IAEA Monitoring in Possible ‘Fatal Blow’ to the Nuclear Deal
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed last week that Iran had begun removing 27 IAEA cameras monitoring its nuclear program. Tehran’s step, which came in retaliation to a formal admonishment...
June 6, 2022
Treasury Sanctions Cryptocurrency Exchange, But International Enforcement Still Lacking
The U.S. Department of the Treasury in May sanctioned a major digital-currency mixer, Blender.io, which North Korea has used to launder $20.5 million in funds stolen from a gaming-focused blockchain project...
June 2, 2022
China’s Multilateral March Continues
China scored several diplomatic victories last week at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), amplifying concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) efforts...
May 27, 2022
Top Russian Bank Launches Apparent Attempt to Evade Sanctions
Russian media reported last week that state-owned Sberbank, the country’s largest financial institution, had sold some of its assets to an obscure company established in March. The sale likely reflects...
May 20, 2022
Consider Designating Russia as a Jurisdiction of Primary Money Laundering Concern
Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) last week called on the Treasury Department to designate a Russian bank and two related entities as institutions of “primary money laundering concern” (PMLC) under Section...
May 16, 2022
President Biden’s Missed Opportunities at U.S.-ASEAN Summit
President Joe Biden hosted an in-person summit last week with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a bloc of 10 countries with a total annual GDP of approximately $3 trillion....
May 12, 2022
Biden Should Press WHO to Suspend Russia
The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region overwhelmingly passed a resolution on May 10 condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with 43 votes in favor and only Russia, Belarus,...
May 11, 2022
IRGC-Controlled Iranian Airline Makes Unexplained Flights to Russia Amidst Invasion of Ukraine
The U.S.-sanctioned Iranian airline Qeshm Fars Air has flown to Moscow at least seven times since mid-April after having made that trip only twice last year, according to the flight tracking service FlightRadar24....
May 3, 2022
State Department Report Glosses Over Assad’s Narco-Trafficking Wealth
In a congressionally mandated report issued last week, the State Department made a single passing reference to drug trafficking as a source of wealth for the family of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The...
April 29, 2022
Iran Increases Funding for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Iran significantly increased its funding in 2021 for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the regime’s primary tool for exporting Islamist extremism and supporting terrorist groups, according...
April 21, 2022
New State Department Report Admits Iran May Be Hiding Nuclear Activities
The Biden administration has “serious concerns” about “possible undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,” according to an annual report the State Department released on Tuesday. The administration’s...
April 21, 2022
China’s COVID-19 Crisis Threatens to Derail Xi’s Ambitious Economic Agenda
The fallout from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s failed zero-COVID-19 policies threatens to undermine public trust in CCP governance in ways not seen since the Tiananmen era....
April 20, 2022
North Korean Hackers Stole $620 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency, FBI Finds
The FBI attributed a $620 million cryptocurrency theft to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus last week, while the Treasury Department sanctioned the digital wallet in which Lazarus had stashed the stolen...
April 13, 2022
Iran Likely to Gain More Than $70 Billion From the Removal of Oil Sanctions
Mohsen Khojastemehr, the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company, said earlier this month that Iran’s oil production has returned to its pre-sanctions levels. While this claim may constitute an exaggeration,...
April 12, 2022
Iran’s Centrifuge Manufacturing Goes Underground
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported last week that Iran is concentrating its centrifuge production equipment at two centrifuge manufacturing facilities — both likely located beneath...
April 12, 2022
Senate Unanimously Approves Lend-Lease Act to Expedite Aid to Ukraine
After months of delay, the Senate last Wednesday unanimously passed legislation to accelerate the delivery of defense equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. However, the House has yet...
April 12, 2022
Justice Department Disrupts Russian Malware With Help from Private Sector
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Wednesday it had detected and preemptively disabled Russian-installed malware on thousands of network devices in the United States and around the world. The...
March 30, 2022
Administration’s Iran Nuclear Deal Claims Do Not Stand Up to Reality
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said during a press briefing last week that President Joe Biden seeks to put Iran’s atomic program “back in the box after President Trump let it out of the box...
March 24, 2022
Tehran to Pocket Billions From Lower Import Costs if Sanctions Are Lifted
Washington and Tehran may soon strike an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In exchange for temporary nuclear concessions, the United...
March 21, 2022
Assad Visits the UAE, Showing Need for Tougher Enforcement of U.S. Sanctions
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad visited the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the first time another Arab government has welcomed Assad since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011. The State Department...
March 18, 2022
U.S. Should Seize and Sell Assets of Sanctioned Russian Elites to Aid Ukraine
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would enable Washington to seize and sell assets of sanctioned Russian elites and then use the proceeds to support Ukraine. As Washington...
March 15, 2022
Surging COVID-19 Cases Undermine Xi’s Governance Narrative
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has skyrocketed in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and a dozen other Chinese provinces in recent weeks, leading to mass lockdowns and record-high hospitalizations. The current...
March 11, 2022
While Others Debate No-Fly Zones, Take These Steps Now to Help Ukraine
Ukrainian forces are fighting hard to defend against the Russian invasion, but are slowly losing ground and cities in the face of a brutal Russian onslaught. As the debates in Washington over no-fly zones...
March 9, 2022
Treasury Targets Hezbollah’s West African Finance Network
The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions last week on Ali Saade and Ibrahim Taher, two prominent Lebanese entrepreneurs based in the West African country of Guinea. According to Treasury, Saade...
March 9, 2022
The New Nuclear Deal Would Allow Tehran to Access Up to $131 Billion of Its Foreign Assets
The Biden administration is finalizing a deal that would provide the Islamic Republic with relief from U.S. sanctions in exchange for temporary and limited curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. When the administration...
March 7, 2022
Time to Sanction Russia’s Alternative to SWIFT
Per an agreement with Washington and other Western allies, the European Union last week prohibited the SWIFT financial messaging system from providing services to seven Russian banks sanctioned over Moscow’s...
February 25, 2022
Erdogan Moves to Censor Western Media But not Russian Propaganda
Turkey’s media regulator, RTUK, posted three official notifications on February 21 threatening to block Western broadcasters Deutsche Welle (DW), Euronews, and Voice of America (VOA), unless they obtain...
February 25, 2022
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine May Supercharge Nuclear Proliferation
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine violates the commitments Moscow reaffirmed in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, in which Russia pledged not to threaten or use...
February 24, 2022
Senators Want More Out of SEC’s Proposed Rules on Cybersecurity
A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month, urging it to require publicly traded companies to disclose information about cybersecurity...
February 23, 2022
Beijing’s Ukraine Balancing Act Reveals Exploitable Fissures in the Sino-Russian Partnership
Over the weekend, Beijing distanced itself from Russian aggression against Ukraine, calling for the “sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of all countries” to be “respected and safeguarded.”...
February 17, 2022
Bipartisan Support Builds for Re-Designation of Iranian-Backed Houthis as a Terrorist Organization
Seventeen members of Congress from both sides of the aisle sent a letter last week to President Joe Biden requesting that he re-designate Yemen’s Iranian-supported Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah,...
February 14, 2022
Iran’s Cyber Operations Against Turkey Should Be a Wakeup Call for Erdogan
As Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signals his intention to mend ties with Israel, Iranian state-sponsored hackers have been targeting government and private-sector entities across Turkey,...
February 8, 2022
China, Russia, and Iran Hold Trilateral Naval Drill
China and Russia, America’s increasingly aligned great power adversaries, teamed up with Iran last month to hold a trilateral naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, which Tehran...
February 4, 2022
Turkey a Step Closer to Suspension From the Council of Europe
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted an interim resolution on Wednesday officially launching infringement proceedings against Turkey for Ankara’s refusal to release Turkish philanthropist...
February 3, 2022
IAEA Makes Vital Push for Improved Safeguards
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is spearheading a campaign to improve the agency’s ability to detect potential nuclear weapons development by member states. This...
January 31, 2022
Biden Administration Backs Levant Energy Deal That Violates Bipartisan Caesar Sanctions
The Lebanese, Jordanian, and Syrian governments signed a deal last week to export surplus Jordanian electricity to Lebanon by routing it through Syria, potentially violating U.S. sanctions on the regime...
January 28, 2022
Administration Urges Congress to Fund Semiconductor Production Amid New Data on Shortages
A “major supply and demand mismatch” pervades the semiconductor industry, the Commerce Department concluded in a report released on Tuesday. Identifying specific supply chain bottlenecks as well as...
January 27, 2022
Biden Greenlights South Korean Release of Funds to Politically Connected Iranian Firm
The Treasury Department on January 6 issued a special license to authorize the South Korean government to pay $63 million that it owed to the Entekhab Group, an Iranian consumer electronics company. However,...
January 25, 2022
Possible Netanyahu Plea Deal Could Shake Up Israeli Politics
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mulling a plea deal that would spare him prison time but likely bar him from politics for at least seven years. While still unlikely, such an agreement...
January 21, 2022
Lawmakers Underscore the Importance of a Plan for Continuity of the Economy
In two separate letters last month, members of Congress urged President Joe Biden to develop a strategy for creating and implementing a Continuity of the Economy (COTE) plan, which would aim to ensure the...
January 20, 2022
Congress Delivers Bipartisan Warning to Biden on Syria Policy
The chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate committees on foreign relations sent a letter last week to President Joe Biden warning him that “[t]acit approval of formal diplomatic engagement...
January 19, 2022
Halkbank’s Supreme Court Appeal Will Delay Iran Sanctions-Evasion Case
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Halkbank, a public lender majority-owned by Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund, can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court without having to defend itself in a Manhattan...
January 19, 2022
U.S. Treasury Designates Additional Targets in Hezbollah Financial Network
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Tuesday on three Hezbollah members and financial facilitators along with their Lebanon-based travel company....
January 12, 2022
It Is Time to Counter China’s Data Strategy
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) closed public feedback last month on a draft regulation to secure and manage data according to its importance to national security. While ostensibly a technical...
January 10, 2022
Iran’s Inflation Rate in 2022 Will Depend on Fate of Nuclear Negotiations
Iran’s annual inflation rate in 2021 was 43.4 percent, according to the Statistical Center of Iran, but President Ebrahim Raisi is determined to reduce inflation in 2022, since high inflation harms the...
January 5, 2022
China’s Sharp Economic Slowdown Threatens to Constrain Xi in 2022
With 10 months until China’s 20th Party Congress, at which Xi Jinping will likely assume a once-unthinkable third term as general secretary, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is grappling with an economic...
January 4, 2022
Erdogan’s Wealth Amnesty Offers Illicit-Finance Loophole for the Eighth Time
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree on December 31 extending the country’s wealth amnesty law. This decree, the eighth episode of wealth amnesties that Erdogan has declared since 2008,...
December 20, 2021
EPA Misses Mark With Proposed Cybersecurity Standard
Water sector groups raised concerns earlier this month with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the agency’s pursuit of a new cybersecurity requirement without prior consultation and collaboration...
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