How Congress Can Keep Biden From Caving to Iran’s Demands
The administration has said it will not remove the IRGC’s terrorist designation, but it is likely looking for ways to ease the burden on Iran.
National Iranian Tanker Company
Reducing Pressure on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Raises Risks for America
Deal or no deal with Iran, retaining and enforcing America’s most significant counterterrorism authority against the long arm of the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism remains in the national security interest of the United States.
Op-eds
Solving Syria’s Crisis Starts with Sanctioning Iranian Oil
Rather than rehabilitating the Assad regime through willful negligence in its sanctions policy, the administration should escalate economic pressure on the Assad regime’s Iranian enablers to regain a measure of leverage at the negotiating table.
Op-eds
Why Biden’s Plan to Rejoin the Iran Deal Makes No Sense
This week’s escalation of tensions by Tehran looks like blackmail to force Biden to abandon sanctions—and give up leverage over the regime.
Op-eds
U.S. Treasury Ramps Up Effort to Disrupt Syria-Iran Oil Trade
The Department of the Treasury moved on two fronts last week to disrupt Iran’s...
Policy Briefs
Iran Shipping Sanctions Run Aground?
Officially, the Obama administration remains committed to enforcing sanctions on Iran’s main merchant shipping fleet, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, also known as IRISL. But i...
Op-eds
Obama’s Iran Policy Is Lost at Sea
American negotiators and their cohorts are trying to close a deal that would let Iran keep its nuclear program, subject to intricate conditions of monitoring and enforcement. Yet how is a deal li...
Op-eds
European Courts Are Gutting Iran Sanctions Before A Nuclear Agreement Has Even Been Reached
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Negotiators working to solve the diplomatic impasse over Iran’s nuclear program have not yet managed to find common ground with Te...
Op-eds
Have Tehran’s Tankers Hijacked the Tanzanian Flag?
When President Obama visited Tanzania last week, he praised the East African country as a place with which he feels a “special connection.” A glitch he did not mention is that Tanzani...
Op-eds
Is Iran Resorting To An Insurance Scam To Keep Oil Exports Going?
Europe’s oil embargo against Iran, reinforced by U.S. extraterritorial measures, is having a serious impact on Iran’s oil exports. Ira...
Op-eds
Iranian Tankers in a Tanzanian Twilight Zone?
Trying to elude the reach of U.S. sanctions, Iran’s oil tankers have put on quite a circus this year, renaming, reflagging and at times switching off their onboard vessel tracking systems t...
Op-eds
FDD Applauds Congress and Treasury for New Iran Sanctions
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (FDD, September 24, 2012) – On the eve of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s appearance a...
Press Releases
So You Want to Be a Sanctions-Buster
It’s easy -- if you try hard enough and have the right friends! Here’s a handy how-to guide to making moolah from the mullahs.
Op-eds
How Iran Steams Past International Sanctions
By reflagging and renaming its ships, Tehran keeps one step ahead of the law.
Op-eds
Battle Rial
To end Iran's nuclear program, it's time for America to step up its economic warfare.
Op-eds
Oil Market Shrugs At Imminent Iran Tanker Insurance Ban
(Reuters) - In less than two weeks, Iran's biggest oil buyers will lose access to the London-based insurance market that protects 95 percent of the world's tanker shipments against oil...
Op-eds
The Magician Behind Iran’s Vanishing Oil Tankers
This interesting article by the Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies sheds some light on one of what undoubtedly are many efforts by the Iranian government to...
Op-eds
Iran Sanctions: Strategy, Implementation and Enforcement
Download the full testimony here (PDF)....
Congressional Testimonies
The Magician Behind Iran’s Vanishing Oil Tankers
With sanctions bearing down on Iran, the Iranian shipping industry has been putting on a carnival of flim-flam to hide its doings. In the latest twist on this sanctions-dodging performance, Iran&...
Op-eds
Iran Sanctions: A Tale of Two Fleets
As financial sanctions tighten on Iran, a shift has appeared in the shipping patterns of Iran’s main cargo fleet, the state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, or IRISL. Blacklis...