As part of the announcement of today’s “Economic D-Day Against Iran,” the Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”) announced a revocation of certain general licenses under the Iran sanctions. Most of them have to do with exceptions relating to educational…
BREAKING NEWS: North Pole spokeself Mr. Elf E. McElfface contacted Export Law Blog with unsettling information. Apparently Donner and Blitzen are under the weather meaning that Santa will have to make his annual Christmas Eve run with six reindeer instead…
Last week the State Department changed its travel advisory on Cuba from “reconsider travel” to “exercise increased caution.” The “reconsider travel” warning was apparently based on the sonic attacks on diplomats in Cuba. The decision to change to “exercise increased…
Prosecutions for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”) might kindly be thought of as press ops for prosecutors and catnip for reporters. And the recent indictment of Maria Butina certainly fits that description: Spies! Sex! Twitter exchanges! Red…
In October 2017, OFAC started down the long and winding road of eliminating the sanctions on Sudan. As we noted in a post then, OFAC — rather oddly — did not just get rid of the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations but…