An interesting article in yesterday’s edition of The Birmingham News provides some further details on the unsuccessful prosecution of an Iranian-American defense contractor in Huntsville that was the subject of a previous post on this blog. As we noted in…
ABOVE: Rami Makhluf Today the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) designated as an SDN Rami Makhluf, the maternal cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and owner of Syriatel, Syria’s largest mobile phone provider. The basis for…
Last week the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a guidance document that answered a question that has probably prompted legions of law firm associates and export compliance officers to call OFAC. The question: what if a…
According to this article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, an Iranian woman and mother of two has voluntarily left Iran to face charges in South Florida that she attempted to export illegal 3,000 helmet-mounted night vision systems from the United…
A fascinating article in today’s Wall Street Journal details how Iran eludes U.S. sanctions on exports to that country. An interview with an Iranian merchant supplies an instructive example of how the merchant obtains iPod accessories from Tennessee-based Griffin Technology:…