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.…
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.…
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…
Last week, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published a final rule in the Federal Register adopting the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations as required by the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (“CISADA”).…
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.…