Bank Sepah

June 20, 2025 | |

Hacking Group Targets Iranian Regime’s Cryptocurrency Exchange and Bank

Iranian Regime Crypto Exchange Hacked: A group of anti-Iran hackers known as Gonjeshke Darande, meaning Predatory Sparrow in Farsi, destroyed nearly $90 million worth of cryptocurrency...

June 19, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Israel targets nuclear sites, Iran appoints new officials (June 19 updates)

Israel has expanded its military campaign against Iran with targeted strikes on nuclear facilities, missile infrastructure, and security institutions. Leadership changes within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...

June 17, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Israel targets IRGC general and disrupts Iranian banks (June 17 updates)

A sweeping Israeli campaign on June 17 delivered a series of coordinated military strikes and cyber operations that placed the Islamic Republic of Iran under mounting pressure. Israel eliminated the most...

April 27, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Matthew Zweig, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Biden, Congress Should Defend Missile Sanctions Imposed on Iran

December 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

New Jersey Bans Business with Danish Bank for Israel Boycott

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on Wednesday at a menorah-lighting ceremony that the state has divested all of its investments from the Danish bank Danske due to its boycott of Israe...

November 21, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany sanctions Iran’s Bank Sepah

Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has announced that it has imposed a credit ban on Iran’s Bank Sepah for violating the country’s credit law....

October 3, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler

Washington Dismantles the Ballistic Missile Embargo

In January, the Obama administration reportedly signed a secret agreement wi...

August 5, 2016 | |

The Iran Money Transfer: Unanswered Questions

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday revealed details of a U.S. cash transfer to...

May 6, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler

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...

April 15, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler

Iran’s Center for Illicit Finance

Iranian Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif is in Washington this week to attend summits at the...

February 12, 2016 | Annie Fixler |

Global Banks Wrestle with Iran’s Return

The Bank of England, according to a report from the Financial Times last week, reacti...

October 29, 2015 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

EU Set to Delist Entities Linked to Iran’s Ballistic Missile Test

Iranian lawmakers broadly endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (...

October 21, 2015 | Annie Fixler |

Iran Sanctions Relief A Nightmare for Financial Compliance

The Obama administration issued waivers on Sunday, suspending “nuclear-related” sanctions on Iran, to take effect...

January 6, 2015 | Claudia Rosett The Tower |

How Iran and North Korea Became Cyber-Terror Buddies

In late November 2014, cyber-warfare burst into the American public consciousness when Sony Pictures Entertainment was the victim of a massive cyber-attack. Hackers leaked Sony’s corporate...

October 7, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Seeing Through the Sheep’s Clothing

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad In his address to the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu described Hassan Rouhani as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but you’d ha...

September 25, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani’s Corrupt Cabinet

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Most Western observers welcomed the end of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s term with a sigh of relief, interpreting new p...

June 8, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Stuxnet and Iran’s Shadow War

David Sanger’s piece in the New York Times earlier this month (“...

February 2, 2012 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Canceling the Mullahs’ Credit Card

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, is a...

November 30, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Big Business Behind Iran’s Proliferation

In preparing to expand sanctions on Iran this week, the governments of the European Union face a critical choice. They can carry on with their current strategy of relying chiefly on pinpoint desi...

November 23, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Common Threats, Different Approaches

Israel, the EU and the U.S. confront the challenge of a nuclear Iran Mr President of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Israeli Knesset, Honour...