The recently passed Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Human Rights Act of 2012 eliminated a loophole that permitted foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to trade with and in Iran as long as no U.S. persons were involved in the transaction. On…
The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) is running out of countries to flag its ships in its increasingly futile efforts to avoid U.S. sanctions on the company. Even Tuvalu, the fourth smallest country in the world, deregistered 44…
The way that U.S. sanctions protect us from Iranian nuclear weapons are indeed wondrous and diverse, as Iranians themselves recently learned when they sat down recently at their computers to don the virtual identity of sword-wielding warriors wandering through imaginary…
ABOVE: ANSI offices in DC The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) recently sent a letter of guidance to the American National Standards Institute (“ANSI”) stating that U.S. participation in international standards organizations, such as the ISO and the ITU,…