The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released today an order changing the address of Mohammad Fazeli on the Denied Persons List. Mr. Fazeli had been convicted of an attempt to export pressure sensors to Iran and was sentenced to…
ABOVE: Schematic of bifilar weight assembly for Black Hawk helicopters (Source). After yesterday’s post on the acquittal in the Axion case, I decided to dig deeper to find out more about the drawing of the bifilar weight assembly that was…
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…