Valiollah Seif

January 10, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

U.S. Should Sanction Tehran’s New Central Banker

Iran’s government appointed Mohammad Reza Farzin as the new governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in late December as the country’s national currency, the rial, plummeted against the U.S. dollar....

September 18, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Tyler Stapleton

Iran hires financial arsonist to fight its financial fires

An excerpt from the op-ed follows:...

August 3, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Iran’s New Central Bank Governor Tied to Sanctioned Entities

On July 25, Abdolnasser Hemmati replaced Valiollah Seif as the governor of the Central...

May 6, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler

Money Laundering For The Mullahs

The Islamic Republic of Iran has mounted a full court press to persuade the global financial community to overlook its long rap sheet of financial crimes. In recent weeks, two of the Islamic Repu...

May 4, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz

Iran Accountability Week

Introduction: Chairman Munson, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before this distinguished committee. I applaud the Canadian Parliament for t...

April 18, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz |

Top Iranian Banker Threatens End of Nuke Deal if U.S. Doesn’t Make Concessions

The governor of Iran’s central bank warned that if the United States doesn’t facilitate Iran’s reintegration into the international financial system, the nuclear deal will &ldqu...

April 15, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler

Iran’s Center for Illicit Finance

Iranian Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif is in Washington this week to attend summits at the...

October 15, 2014 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Emanuele Ottolenghi FDD Policy Brief

The Iran-China-Russia Triangle

A wave of U.S. and EU financial sanctions aimed at Russia following its annexation of Crimea in the summer of 2014 have brought Russia and Iran closer. However, Russia is not the only economy tha...

April 8, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

Iran’s Central Banker Heads to IMF and World Bank

Dr. Valiollah Seif, governor of Iran’s Central Bank, arrived in Washington today to attend the spring meetings of the International...

October 11, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Iran’s Central Bank Governor at the World Bank/IMF Summit

Valiollah Seif, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), will be in Washington, DC October 11-13 to attend the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International...

October 7, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Seeing Through the Sheep’s Clothing

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad In his address to the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu described Hassan Rouhani as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but you’d ha...

September 25, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani’s Corrupt Cabinet

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Most Western observers welcomed the end of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s term with a sigh of relief, interpreting new p...

August 27, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Iran’s New Central Bank Chief

President Hassan Rouhani this week...