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November 15, 2022
Cyber Insurance Settlements Leave Big Questions Unresolved
Major snack distributor Mondelez reached a settlement this month with its insurer, Zurich, after a five-year legal battle over whether the insurance company would cover losses Mondelez suffered from the...
November 14, 2022
Lawmakers Urge More Action to Ensure Resilience of the U.S. Economy
Two Republican lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden earlier this month expressing concern about the “limited action” the administration has taken to create plans to ensure the Continuity of...
October 20, 2022
China, Russia Deepen Partnership on Satellite Navigation
China and Russia signed contracts late last month to host ground stations for their respective global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), BeiDou and GLONASS, which are alternatives to the U.S.-run Global...
October 18, 2022
For Sanctions to Work in Bosnia, EU Must Join the U.S.
The U.S. Treasury Department on September 26 and October 3 imposed sanctions against prominent Bosnian individuals and entities for allegedly engaging in corruption and eroding democracy in Bosnia and...
October 13, 2022
Latest Ransomware Attack on U.S. Healthcare System Exposes Critical Weaknesses
CommonSpirit Health, the second-largest non-profit hospital chain in the United States, suffered a ransomware attack last week. The latest in a string of cyberattacks against the healthcare and public health...
October 7, 2022
Ukraine’s NATO Bid is a Test of the “Open Door”
Ukraine has formally applied for full membership in NATO. This historic move will be a major test to the alliance’s official “open door” to new members. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made...
October 7, 2022
China wins human rights vote at UN, exposing flaws of Biden’s reform plan
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this week voted down a proposal from the United States, Britain, Turkey, and others to hold a debate about the Chinese government’s persecution of Uighur...
October 7, 2022
Growing Trade Signals Deeper Ties Between Iran and Turkey
According to Turkish government sources, bilateral trade between Turkey and Iran increased sharply over the last six months. Although formally a U.S. ally through NATO, Turkey appears determined to deepen...
September 29, 2022
Turkish Banks Suspend Use of Russia’s Mir Payment System
Three Turkish state-owned banks suspended their use of the Russian payment system “Mir” — Moscow’s alternative to the Brussels-based SWIFT messaging service — on Tuesday. This move comes amid...
September 29, 2022
U.S. Must Show Russia There Is No Impunity for Chemical Weapons Use
A meeting next week of the Executive Council (EC) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) presents an opportunity for the United States and its allies to demand Russian compliance...
September 22, 2022
Hezbollah Emerging as Winner from Israel-Lebanon Maritime Talks
Israel and Lebanon are apparently close to a final agreement delineating their maritime border after a Lebanese government delegation met with the Biden administration’s energy envoy, Amos Hochstein,...
September 21, 2022
Washington Punishes Iranian Cyber Actors While Preparing to Enrich Regime
The U.S. Treasury Department issued two sets of sanctions against Iran in mid-September for its malicious cyber operations. While the sanctions and other corresponding U.S. government actions raise awareness...
September 15, 2022
U.S. Should Deny Visa to Iranian President
A bipartisan group of 52 U.S. lawmakers asked President Joe Biden on Monday to deny Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi permission to visit New York for the UN General Assembly later this month. This would...
August 15, 2022
Despite Growth, Inflation Surges in Iran Under Raisi
This month marks the first anniversary of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s assumption of power, but he has failed to fulfill one of his key campaign pledges: to relieve Iran’s economic plight. Over...
August 11, 2022
Time for Change at the UN’s Human Rights Division
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is due to appoint a new UN high commissioner for human rights to replace Michele Bachelet, whose term expires on August 31. The new commissioner will have an opportunity...
August 5, 2022
U.S. Senate votes 95-1 to add Finland and Sweden to NATO alliance
The U.S. Senate voted 95-1 on Wednesday to add Finland and Sweden to the NATO alliance. The overwhelming vote is a major rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a resounding expression of American...
July 28, 2022
Algeria Leads Campaign to Rehabilitate Assad Regime
While visiting Damascus to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra called on Monday for Syria’s return to the Arab League. Lamamra’s trip to Damascus is...
July 22, 2022
Cyber Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices Put Patients at Risk
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) closed the public comment period earlier this month on draft cybersecurity guidance for new medical devices after receiving more than a thousand comments from patients,...
July 21, 2022
Iranian Official Claims Tehran Has Nuclear Threshold Status
A foreign policy adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said on Sunday, “It is no secret that we have become a nuclear threshold country. This is the reality. This is the fact.” This statement implies Tehran...
July 19, 2022
U.S. Standards Body Reaches Critical Milestone for Mitigating the Quantum Threat, But More Work Is Needed
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced at the beginning of July the successful testing and selection of the first four algorithms that will become part of NIST’s post-quantum...
July 18, 2022
The UN Has Now Spent $81.6 Million at the Four Seasons Damascus
The United Nations released new procurement data last week showing that its agencies spent an additional $11.5 million last year at the Four Seasons Damascus, for a total of $81.6 million since 2014. The...
July 13, 2022
Washington Should Keep the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbiya on Its Sanctions List
As part of negotiations to revive a version of the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran is reportedly demanding the suspension of U.S. sanctions imposed on Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, the Islamic Revolutionary...
July 8, 2022
Strict Oversight Needed for New U.S-Backed Counter-China Infrastructure Initiative
The United States, in partnership with other Group of 7 (G7) nations, launched an initiative last week aimed at raising $600 billion to fund infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries over...
July 7, 2022
Hezbollah Drones Target Israeli Gas Rigs, Amplify U.S. Pressure on Israel
The Israeli military last week shot down three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah had launched toward one of Israel’s offshore rigs at the Karish gas field. The...
June 24, 2022
U.S.-Backed Gas Deal Will Benefit Assad Regime
At a ceremony in Beirut, the governments of Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt signed a deal on Tuesday that would bring 650 million cubic meters of Egyptian gas per year to Lebanon via Syria. The Biden administration...
June 24, 2022
Erdogan Announces Presidential Candidacy
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week formally announced his candidacy for re-election to a third consecutive term. The announcement aims to compel the Nation Alliance, an electoral coalition...
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...
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