The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued today a Final Rule, without notice or public participation, which, effective immediately, amends the Iranian Transactions Regulations to amend the definition of “Iranian Account” found in § 560.320 of those Regulations. Prior to…
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its slip opinion in Del Monte Fresh Produce Company v. United States. The appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had dismissed a case filed by…
Even though Iran’s mobile phone infrastructure was crucial to the ability of Iranians to send to the outside world video, still images and first-hand reports of the events in Iran, Senators Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham think it’s a good…
More U.S. computer chips have been sighted in Iran, this time some AMD Opteron Dual Core microprocessors that the Aerospace Research Institute of Iran (“ARI”) touts it has incorporated into what passes for a supercomputer in Iran. The ARI is…
According to this report in the Wall Street Journal, the State Department asked Twitter to delay again a previously scheduled downtime on the service because of unfolding events in Iran. Twitter itself had delayed the first scheduled downtime. Twitter, however,…