Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank

August 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s central bank imposes rule to stop cash delivery to Tehran

Germany’s powerful central bank – Deutsche Bundesbank – passed a new financial policy that will effectively bar the transfer of nearly $400 million in cash to the Iranian regime...

April 6, 2011 | Jerusalem Post

German Firms Finance World Champ in Holocaust Denial’

BERLIN – The new president of Germany's 105,000-member Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, launched on Monday a withering attack on German companies, the Merkel administration an...

March 31, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal Jerusalem Post

German Gov’t, Iranian Bank EIH Circumvent Sanctions’

BERLIN – New disclosures earlier this week have catapulted the scandal-plagued Hamburg-based Europäisch- Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), the German Foreign Ministry and Germany's Cen...

February 28, 2011 | Jerusalem Post |

Deciphering German Foreign Policy Toward Israel and Iran

BERLIN – In the span of 48 hours last week, the German Foreign Ministry supported a Lebanese sponsored UN Security Council resolution which condemned Israeli settlement construction as "illegal,"...

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...

February 4, 2011 | Weekly Standard

U.S. Senators Demand that Germany Close Iran EIH Bank

U.S. frustration with German chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, seems to have reached a breaking point this week. Germany's recalcitrant position about shutting d...

November 19, 2010 | Jerusalem Post

Germany: EU Iran Sanctions Don’t Prohibit Hamburg Bank

BERLIN – The German government last week denied that German authorities plan to pull the plug on the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank). Speaking during an...

November 12, 2010 | Jerusalem Post |

Israeli Ambassador Says Germans May Close Iranian EIH Bank

BERLIN – Israel has asked "the German government on all levels to close" the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank, Ambassador to Germany Yoram Ben-Ze'ev said in response to a Jerusalem Post query on We...

September 8, 2010 |

Why is Merkel Protecting Iran’s Terror Bank?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad a...

August 19, 2010 | Jerusalem Post

Despite US Pressure, Merkel Unlikely to Close Iran Bank

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains unlikely to order the closure of the Hamburg-based Iranian bank (EIH), which has reportedly funneled over $1 billion into Iran's military and ball...

August 10, 2010 | |

From Germany, a Lesson for Mayor Bloomberg

While New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was energetically defending the Ground Zero mosque, German authorities banned on Monday the Masjid Taiba mosque of Hamburg, which served as the launching pa...

July 22, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal Weekly Standard

Will Germany Continue to Prop up Iran’s Financial Terror Entities?

The European Union is slated this week to wrap up a new round of sanctions. Their goal is to force Iran to suspend its illicit nuclear program. After years of inaction, the European Union is now...

July 21, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal Jerusalem Post

Germany’s Chance to Get Serious on Sanctions

The European Union is slated this week to wrap up its new round of sanctions. The goal is to force Teheran to suspend its illicit nuclear program. After years of drowsiness, the EU is no...

July 20, 2010 | Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post

German Bank Funding Iran Nuke Program

BERLIN – German authorities are facing criticism because of the role of a Hamburg-based Iranian bank in financing Teheran's nuclear and missile development programs. Europäisch-Ir...