ABOVE: Amir Ardebili captured on surveillance video in Tbilisi, Georgia An eight-part series has been running this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the U.S. sting operation conducted against Iranian national Amir Ardebili, which this blog first reported on here.…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon approved, by a bipartisan vote, the U.K. and Australia defense trade cooperation treaties signed by President Bush in 2007 and which have been languishing in front of the Senate committee ever since. The…
ABOVE: Sultan Qaboos According to a story appearing in London broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, the bill for the $500,000 ransom paid to Iran to enable release of imprisoned hiker Sarah Shourd was footed by Oman’s Sultan Qaboos. The question of…
Face it, we export folks have always felt that we weren’t part of cool crowd. We work with agencies that absolutely no one else has ever heard of. Our shop talk is littered with more acronyms than your kid’s bowl…
On Monday, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) repealed the Iraqi Sanctions Regulations, formerly found at 31 C.F.R. § 575.101 et seq. and replaced them the Iraq Stabilization and Insurgency Sanctions Regulations which will be found…