Clif Burns

Clif Burns

What One Hand Giveth, the Other Taketh Away

ABOVE: Kevin Wolf Today’s edition of the Washington Tariff & Trade Letter has an article (paid subscription required) reporting on the July 27 meeting of the Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”).…

Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

An excellent article titled “The Nuclear Puppet-Master” by Charlie Gillis and David Armstrong delves into the network behind Mahmoud Yadegari, a Canadian of Iranian origin who was recently convicted in Canada for attempting to transship pressure transducers through the U.A.E.…

OFAC’s War on Right to Counsel Continues

The Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) last week revised its rules on the use of blocked funds to pay attorneys’ fees to challenge OFAC’s blocking order. Perhaps the single most odious practice OFAC is its use…

ETS Stops Administering TOEFL in Iran

The New-Jersey-based Educational Testing Service recently put up an announcement on its website indicating that it had, at least temporarily, stopped administering the “Test of English as a Foreign Language” (“TOEFL”) in Iran. The United Nations Security Council has passed…