ABOVE: Nigel Howard Malpass [See update at the end of this post.] Who is Nigel Malpass? Well, for starters, he was elected in 2008 as a local authority commissioner for Ramsey, a hamlet on the Isle of Man, the rogue…
On Friday, the Department of State announced that it had terminated sanctions against various Russian entities. First, it lifted sanctions that it had imposed on Rosoboronexport in 2008. Second, it lifted sanctions on the D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology…
ABOVE: Majid Kakavand So once Majid Kakavand hot-footed it back into Iran, after French authorities denied the United States government’s request for his extradition from France, this was pretty much the first thing out of his mouth Given that I…
A court battle raging between Italian company Tiber Aviation s.r.l. and Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. turns on whether Tiber was actually intending to ship a helicopter to Iran or whether Bell told that story to a special agent of the…
A recent article in today’s international edition of Der Spiegel reports on an interesting analogue, in Germany, to the Majid Kakavand case in France. Just as the court in France seems likely to deny the request by the U.S. for…