An Afton, Wyoming man, Matt Kallgren, was sentenced, on January 23, 2012, to three years probation with the first four months in home confinement on charges that he exported EAR99 diesel truck parts to Syria. Of course, since criminal penalties…
When I earlier reported on the latest round of Syria sanctions, which now prohibit exportation of services to Syria, I noted that the executive order did not contain typical exceptions for services that are generally permitted in the case of…
The White House, hoping to speak loudly and to shake a big stick, issued today an executive order imposing yet another round of sanctions on Syria. Although exports of goods to Syria have been prohibited since the passage of the…
Here’s what has changed at OFAC. Yesterday OFAC announced a general license for Iran and Sudan that would permit export of certain services and software incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet, such as instant messaging, chat…
Andrew Tabler, who works for a Washington-based think tank on the Middle East wrote a column in today’s web-edition of Newsweek on the appointment by the Obama administration of a new Ambassador to Syria — the first since 2005 —…