No big news today, so it’s time for another Export Law Blog grab bag: Failed state Solomon Islands wanted Iran to pay for transportation of Solomon Islands students to Cuba to attend medical school. Australia-based ANZ Bank refused to transfer…
ABOVE: Avi Jorisch Avi Jorisch, who used to be a policy advisor at the Treasury Department’s office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “How Iran Skirts Sanctions: Could a U.N. agency be…
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday approved proposed legislation, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009, which would, if adopted, further tighten sanctions on Iran. In an appropriations measure sent to the President earlier this month, companies that…
Hansa India, a ship owned by Hamburg-based Leonhardt & Blumberg and chartered by that firm to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (“IRISL”), was boarded earlier this month in the Gulf of Suez by U.S. troops, who discovered AK-47…
Last week, Canadian officials announced that they had intercepted navigational microchips headed for Iran. More interestingly, in an interview that George Webb, the head of Canada Border Services Agency’s Counter Proliferation Section, gave to Canada’s National Post after the interception,…