The new OFAC penalty disclosure for August came out on Saturday with some embarrassing news about Travelocity’s Roaming Gnome. Seems that for for six years, between 1998 and 2004, the Travelocity site booked 1,458 reservations for travel to Cuba. The…
Fouad Al Zayat, a Syrian businessman and high-stakes gambler better known by London casino staff as “The Fat Man,” just lost an appeal he filed to have the U.K. to release property that the U.K. had blocked at Iran’s request.…
Devotees of the New Yorker will no doubt remember items that used to be short entries titled “There Will Always Be an England.” A typical item under that heading recounted humorous but true anecdotes of quaint English behavior. You know,…
Stephen D. Mull, formerly the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania and now the Acting Assistant Secretary for Political Military Affairs at the State Department, testified last week at the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee’s hearing on export control. Most of the testimony…
Another day, another foreign subsidiary of a U.S. company caught shipping stuff to Iran. This time it’s the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Viking, a leading manufacturer of fire protection systems. The fire extinguishing systems were shipped by the sub through the…