Iranian Companies’ Shares Plummeted after Treasury Designations
On October 16, the U.S. Treasury designated 20 Iranian entities. Using the anti-terrorism authorities under Executive Order 13224, Tre...
Bank Mellat
Money Laundering For The Mullahs
The Islamic Republic of Iran has mounted a full court press to persuade the global financial community to overlook its long rap sheet of financial crimes. In recent weeks, two of the Islamic Repu...
Op-eds
Iran’s Center for Illicit Finance
Iranian Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif is in Washington this week to attend summits at the...
Policy Briefs
Global Banks Wrestle with Iran’s Return
The Bank of England, according to a report from the Financial Times last week, reacti...
Policy Briefs
The Sanctions on Iran Are Already Falling Apart
The Obama administration insists that the November 2013 interim nuclear deal with Iran gave Tehran’s economy only limited sanctions relief and that it can respond to Iranian misbe...
Op-eds
Lesson Of An Iran Sanctions Saga In Seoul
SEOUL — If international sanctions on Iran are lifted pronto — a condition Iran is demanding as part of any nuclear deal — how hard might it be to reimpose them, in the likely e...
Op-eds
Obama Misses The Point Of Iran Sanctions
In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama reiterated his thr...
Op-eds
Switzerland Is Open To Iranian Business
During his recent appearance before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani said that Iran is “ready to welcome entrepreneurs and big economic...
Op-eds
Negotiations on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), thank you for inviting me to testify today on the implementation...
Congressional Testimonies
Now Obama Needs to Pressure Turkey
In a surprise development on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an apology to Turkis...
Op-eds
Fake Privatization
Co-authored by When the European Court of Justice decided on January 29 to remove Iran’s Bank Mellat from the European Union’s sanctions list, its judges no doubt thoug...
Op-eds
Case by Case, EU Judges Help Iran Go Nuclear
Recent court rulings are undermining Europe’s vital sanctions
Op-eds
German Firms Still Ship Dual-Use Goods to Iran
Germany’s multi-billion euro bilateral trade relationship with Iran continues unabated, even as evidence mounts that the Islamic Republic is determined to build a nuclear weapons capability...
Op-eds
Canceling the Mullahs’ Credit Card
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, is a...
Op-eds
Holland Pulls Ambassador from Teheran over Hanging
BERLIN – The Netherlands froze diplomatic relations with Iran last month because of the execution of Zahra Bahrami a Dutch-Iranian woman, and on Monday, The Hague recalled its ambassador to Teher...
Op-eds
Stop the Bomb Protests Iranian ‘Terror Bank’
BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it...
Op-eds
US Treasury Bans European-Iranian Bank from Operating in US
BERLIN – The US Treasury Department last week banned the Hamburg-based European-Iranian Bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank) from operating in the US because it finances companies that...