ABOVE: Amir Ardebilimugshot All of the installments in the outstanding series on the Ardebili case under John Shiffman’s byline at The Philadelphia Inquirer have now been published, and each article is a treasure trove of new information about the case.…
Regular readers of this blog are familiar with our occasional posts on press releases from companies boasting that they have “achieved” registration with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) and that this means that they have been certified as…
ABOVE: Amir Ardebili captured on surveillance video in Tbilisi, Georgia An eight-part series has been running this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the U.S. sting operation conducted against Iranian national Amir Ardebili, which this blog first reported on here.…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon approved, by a bipartisan vote, the U.K. and Australia defense trade cooperation treaties signed by President Bush in 2007 and which have been languishing in front of the Senate committee ever since. The…
ABOVE: Sultan Qaboos According to a story appearing in London broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, the bill for the $500,000 ransom paid to Iran to enable release of imprisoned hiker Sarah Shourd was footed by Oman’s Sultan Qaboos. The question of…