Economic sanctions

September 7, 2022 | Tony Badran |

America’s Regional Integration Scheme Benefits Iran

The Obama-Biden doctrine means that our Mideast allies don’t have to like the Iran deal. They just have to pay for it.

July 6, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Lebanon’s New Electoral Law Seeks to Preempt U.S. Sanctions on Hezbollah

Congress passed the first round of Hezbollah sanctions in late 2015. Known as the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act (HIFPA), the bill targeted banks used by the group and its membe...

June 13, 2017 | Anthony Ruggiero |

A New North Korea Sanctions Approach

Download the full memo here.  Introduction...

June 17, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Iran-Boeing Deal: Rewards and Risks

Iran’s minister of transport, Abbas Akhoundi, announced an aircraft deal this week with...

March 17, 2016 | |

U.S. Should Use Sector-Based Economic Sanctions to Thwart Iran’s Illicit Ballistic Missile Program

Washington, DC - The United States should deploy a series of sector-based economic sanctions to counter the Iranian ballistic missile program that threatens the Middle East and U.S. inte...

February 29, 2016 |

Saudi Arabia targets alleged Hezbollah procurement agents

Saudi Arabia imposed sanctions&...

July 1, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It

There is a key flaw in the emerging nuclear deal with Iran that is likely to quickly turn this historic agreement into a monumental failure. The most important thing Iran gets from a dea...

July 1, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia

Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone(FIZ), waiting for customs authoriti...

April 29, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Saeed Ghasseminejad

The Iranian ‘Deep State’ is Trying to Buy an Oil Refinery in Switzerland

Iranians hit the streets earlier this month to celebrate a nucle...

November 13, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz, Reuel Marc Gerecht

Iran’s Diplomatic Path to the Bomb

Let’s assume the Iranian nuclear talks in Vienna fail to conclude a final agreement by Nov. 24, the already extended deadline under the interim Joint Plan of Action signed in January. Iran&...

March 25, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Benjamin Weinthal

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...

March 19, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Sanctions Against Iran Should Focus On Powerful Revolutionary Guards

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Since Hassan Rouhani’s election as the new president of Iran in June 2013, the Islamic Republic has been on a ‘charm offensiv...

December 10, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz FDD Policy Brief |

The Costs for Iran of Walking Away from Nuclear Negotiations

The U.S. Senate is working on new legislation that would impose sanctions on Iran if it cheat...

May 13, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Iran’s Car Industry – A Big Sanctions Buster

Over the past six years, the United States and its European allies have imposed an impressive sanctions regime against Iran. Sanctions have successfully caused severe stress to Iran’s econo...

April 17, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz |

Obama Administration ‘May Be Forced’ to Launch Military Strike Against Iran

Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, Mark Dubowitz warned that Iran was in the process of installing "thousands of new, more efficient centrifuges". He said, "By June 2014, they'l...

January 7, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Supreme Investor

To make sanctions bite, the US and its Western allies should target companies controlled by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

September 20, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Jewish Museum Event Calls for Israel Boycott

The internationally renowned Jewish Museum in Berlin hosted a podium discussion on Saturday with US academic Judith Butler, who renewed her calls to boycott Israel. It appears to be the first ant...

May 1, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

It’s Not ‘Leading From Behind’; It’s ‘Leading WITH the Behind’

Because President Obama has got it ass-backwards. Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker says that our seemingly incoherent policy — which Krauthammer calls “ad hoc” — is driven by...

February 14, 2011 | FoxNews.com

U.S. Presses Germany to Take Action Against Bank Said to Be Backing Iran’s Nuke Program

BERLIN-- Germany may be scaling back its trade with Iran, but not fast enough for the United States. The German government won't close a Hamburg-based bank that the U.S. Treasury Department...

June 10, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal, Mark Dubowitz Slate

Disrupt Iran’s Oil Trade, Aid the Green Movement

Conventional wisdom has it that imposing harsher energy sanctions on the Iranian regime will have little effect on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ent...