Bank Sepah

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...

November 23, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi The 37th Interparliamentary Meeting Between European Parliament and Knesset |

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...

June 15, 2011 | Portuguese Institute for International Relations |

Making the Difficult Decisions: Europe’s Role and Challenge in Averting a Nuclear Iran

By Joshua Goodman The Iranian nuclear program is sometimes portrayed as the one foreign policy issue on which Americans and Europeans have come to the same conclusion and taken...

September 24, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal Jerusalem Post |

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...

September 6, 2010 | Australian

Aussies Pull the Plug in Iran

IRAN is slowly suffocating from sanctions that are beginning to bite where the maverick state has been strongest: its energy sector. The tougher set of sanctions imposed mid-year by the UN,...