A bombshell report this week laid bare a startling truth: Hong Kong is the lifeline for the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies. Hong Kong-registered shell companies are funneling billions...
Iran-backed militias work through politicians, front companies, and oil smugglers to siphon billions of dollars from the Iraqi people each year in schemes to enrich both themselves and the Islamic Republic...
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The bombs may have stopped falling on Iran — for now — but that doesn’t mean the regime isn’t still under attack, including its illicit oil trade with China. The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday...
The European Union is stepping up enforcement against Russian sanctions evasion. Brussels has now implemented its largest set of designations against Moscow in two years, targeting the Kremlin’s enablers...
Defense Secretary Says UK Tracked Russian Subs: UK Defense Secretary John Healey revealed on April 9 that the British armed forces, in cooperation with Norway and other allied nations, had tracked three Russian submarines off the British coast for over a month. Healey said that the purpose of the operation was to gather information about underwater infrastructure, including cables and pipelines. “Our armed forces left them in no doubt that they were being monitored, that their movements were not covert, as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin planned,” Healey said.
Israel Strikes Iran’s Largest Petrochemical Plant: The Israeli Air Force launched strikes against Iran’s largest petrochemical plant, Asaluyeh, on April 6. According to Israeli...
Tens of billions of dollars have been siphoned out of the Iranian economy by the Islamic Republic’s insiders over the past decade. If the U.S. wasn’t watching then, it is now. “We...
President Donald Trump should say the quiet part out loud: China’s years of economic, technological and diplomatic support for Iran did not merely underwrite the regime’s malign activity. It accelerated...
2 Chinese-Flagged Vessels Turned Back: Iran blocked two Chinese-flagged container vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on March 27, according to the MarineTraffic tracking...
Navy Commander Killed: Israel said on March 26 that it had eliminated Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, in the port city of Bandar...
Allowing Tehran to sell crude will only strengthen its grip over global energy flows.
In order to hurt Washington, Tehran is practicing a deliberate strategy to weaponize uncertainty.
Iran is seeking to tighten its grip on the Strait of Hormuz — not by closing it, but by reopening it on its own terms and forcing countries to pay for passage. Multiple reports...
On the evening of March 20, the Trump administration issued Iran General License U (GL U), a one-month authorization for the sale of what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says will be approximately 140...
Israel Targets Tehran Regime’s Repression Force: Israel escalated its strikes against members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Basij paramilitary force in Iran on March...
Russia is getting a financial boost from an unexpected source: the U.S. Treasury Department. On March 12, the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a one-month general license authorizing...