Reuters has obtained a copy of a State Department letter to Congressional staff on the simmering feud between the State Department and Thales Alenia Space over the W3C satellite that Thales sold to the Chinese and which the Chinese have…
A California man has been indicted in connection with his attempt to export radiation hardened, space qualified chips to the People’s Republic of China without an export license. The indictment, if true, tells an interesting tale. According to the indictment,…
The White House issued an executive order today blocking all property of the Iranian government and all Iranian financial institutions. Prior to this action, the Iranian Transaction Regulations (“ITR”) required U.S. persons to reject transactions with these parties rather than…
Well, who would have thought that a Google news search on “dual use exports” would turn up a WaPo story on the export of bulls from Virginia to Russia? Or that the story would talk about “dual use cows”? I…
ABOVE: Sharif Univ. of Technology Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, a professor at Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University of Technology was arrested on December 7, 2011, when he stepped off a plane in Los Angeles where he had arrived for a medical visit…