ABOVE: Sharif Univ. of Technology Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, a professor at Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University of Technology was arrested on December 7, 2011, when he stepped off a plane in Los Angeles where he had arrived for a medical visit…
Yesterday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added Iran’s Bank Tejerat to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (the “SDN List”). This means that no U.S. person may engage in financial transactions…
Rudolf Cheung, who is the head of the Research & Development department of Microwave Engineering Corporation in North Andover, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on January 20, 2012, to charges that he violated the Arms Export Control Act in connection with unlicensed…
ABOVE: Nalinee Taveesin Any U.S. companies doing business with the Thai government are going to have to exercise some additional caution after Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra appointed Nalinee Taveesin as PM’s Office Minister. Ms. Taveesin is on the SDN…
In a post back in December titled “Imaginary Numbers,” I noted that the list of commodity jurisdiction determinations by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls had some puzzling entries: Three entries on the list, two for a high mobility electron…