When the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) convenes its plenary next week, while not formally on the agenda, buzz on the sidelines will concern Tehran’s constant push to be removed from the FATF blacklist....
A Primary-Source Review
It’s time for Uncle Sam to draw the line
Turkey's economy is a mess, but its president won't seek an IMF loan because the conditions would mean giving up his extensive patronage network.
A Plan for North Korea
After two weeks of popular protests in Lebanon against the country’s corrupt political class, Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri has handed his resignation. While some see this development as a victory...
By attacking Saudi Aramco, Iran wanted to force the US to return to the JCPOA nuclear deal. It failed. The futility of Iran’s attempts to force the US to return to the nuclear deal was evident at the...
Maximum pressure could still deliver strategic outcomes.
U.S. State Adversaries Seeking Blockchain Sanctions Resistance
The Trump administration's strategy of maximum pressure on Iran took full effect on Nov. 5. It included the re-imposition of oil sanctions and designation of more than 700 Iranian entities...
North Korean Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said this month that he would nev...
On July 25, Abdolnasser Hemmati replaced Valiollah Seif as the governor of the Central...
Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance
Re-imposing sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran, which were lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, while the rial has recently lost nearly half of its value, could “inflict serious dama...
Re-imposing sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran, which were lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, while the rial has recently lost nearly half of its value, could “inflict serious dama...
The Iranian rial fell to a record low this weekend, largely in response to President Trump’s appointment of John Bolton – seen as hawkish on Iran – to serve as his national secu...
On January 20, the Turkish government...