ABOVE:Rolls-Royce Model 250 Engine When an Iranian businessman based in Tehran arrived in the United States on Saturday, he was probably not expecting that his welcome wagon would be a contingent of special agents from the Bureau of Industry and…
This must be the season for press releases from companies reporting that they have “achieved” ITAR “certification.” I reported on one of those just a few days ago and along comes another one, this time from California-based SigmaQuest. And I…
ABOVE:Ali DivandariChairman, Bank Mellat Today’s online edition of the Wall Street Journal published an interview with Ali Divandari, the Chairman of Iran’s Bank Mellat. That Bank was added to the SDN list in 2007 and since then all U.S. persons…
The UK’s Export Control Office (“ECO”) has just released a video on export control that has the tenor and excitement of certain videos they used to show us in high school health class on those touchy subjects of serious concern,…
Regular readers will know that we have a particular fascination with Business Wire press releases where companies announce that they have “achieved” registration under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). These press releases are amusing because anyone who can…