Last week an obviously confused reporter at internetnews.com reported what he thought were the details of a letter from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) received by Mozilla, the open-source project responsible for Firefox, Thunderbird and other Internet applications,…
ABOVE: Andrew Shapiro Let’s take the good news first. It comes from Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary, Political-Military Affairs at State, in his Keynote Address to ComDef 2009, earlier this month: I am also happy to report that we are…
The Institute for Science and International Security recently released an interesting report on Germany’s criminal prosecution of Vanaki Mohsen, who was accused of exporting various dual use items to Iran in violation of Germany’s War Weapons Control Act. The prosecution…
Two weeks ago, we reported on a $14,613.24 fine imposed by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) on Thermon Manufacturing after Thermon voluntarily disclosed to the agency that it had shipped heat-tracing equipment to Sudan in violation of the…
An excellent article that appeared today on the Bloomberg website indicates that Malaysia may be nudging the U.A.E. out of the position as top transhipment destination for items headed from the U.S. to Iran. According to that article, increasing crackdowns…