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The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East
The promise of democracy for Muslims offers something historically unparalleled. Where Islamist groups once dreamed of revolution, quietly developed paramilitary cells, and assassinated their secular opponents, mainstream Islamist groups today see elections as a means for society to maintain akhlaq; the mores that define good Muslims.
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No to a Grand Bargain with Iran
What if the increasing hostility between Iran and the West is just a giant misunderstanding? What if, far from being the result of deep ideological disputes and inherently incompatible worldviews, the rift between Tehran and Washington is reconcilable? more...
Are Sanctions Working?
There’s pain and then there’s pain. Getting stung by a bee hurts. Having a Doberman sink his teeth into your thigh is a more intense experience. By the same token, there are sanctions and then there are sanctions. more...
Canceling the Mullahs’ Credit Card
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, is a member-owned cooperative that provides some 10,000 financial institutions worldwide with the means to exchange secure electronic financial messages. more...
Before We Thank Iran’s Tanker Fleet…
With sanctions currently the U.S. tool of choice for thwarting Iran’s terror networks and nuclear ambitions, the good news is that U.S. lawmakers are crafting new measures to cast a wider net. more...
What Canada Can Do to Thwart Iranian Threat
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has described Iran in recent interviews as the gravest threat to international security, expressing certainty that the regime is striving to build nuclear weapons. more...
Will New Oil Sanctions Be the Game-Changer in Iran?
On Monday, in a move that would have been unimaginable only weeks ago, the European Union outlawed Iranian oil imports. The 27 states of the European Union together import 660,000 barrels of crude from Iran each day, making them collectively the second largest importer of the Islamic Republic’s oil, after oil-starved China. more...
Il Bluff Iraniano Su Hormuz e i Veri Pericoli del Programma Nucleare
Nelle scorse settimane, l'Iran ha ripetutamente minacciato di chiudere lo Stretto di Hormuz, alimentando timori di una possibile recrudescenza di tensioni politiche e militari nel Golfo Persico. more...
The Embargo That Can’t Wait
Iran's recent threats to close the Strait of Hormuz have elicited worldwide concern about escalation in the Persian Gulf. The unrest along the strategic waterway has raised the specter of war and spiraling oil prices; Hormuz is the obligatory daily transit point for nearly 20% of world energy resources. more...
Economic Regime-Change Can Stop Iran Bomb
Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, the choke-point for Persian Gulf oil shipments, reveals how deeply the latest Western sanctions -- and the threat of even tougher measures -- have spooked the clerical regime. more...
The Problem with Iran Is Not Lack of Communication
“Groundhog day, over and over again,” is how Ambassador John Bolton has described U.S. efforts to talk with Iran, saying all such talks achieve is to buy time for Iran to work on its nuclear weapons program. That was in 2009, and right he was. more...
Can EU Oil Sanctions Create a Turning Point in Iran?
The significance of international sanctions on Iran took on new prominence this week, after a group of US senators sent a letter on Tuesday to Catherine Ashton, the EU's chief diplomat, urging the 27-member EU group to implement an oil embargo against Tehran. more...
How to Punish Iran’s Despots
In a few weeks’ time, the European Union’s foreign ministers will gather in Brussels to discuss a common response to Iran’s ongoing nuclear activities. To its credit, the EU reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday to impose an oil embargo on the Islamic Republic of Iran. more...
Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash
Would a U.S. military strike against Iran kill anti-regime sentiment inside the country? That seems to be the conviction of U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. more...
US to Turn Non-Military Screws on Iran
The growing tendency toward targeting the Islamic Republic with powerful non-military sanctions moved beyond the idea stage on Thursday among Washington’s politicians and Iran experts. more...
Best of Enemies
After years of ambiguity, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has finally lifted the veil on Iran's nuclear secrets and forced even the most sceptical to take sides. more...
The Big Business Behind Iran’s Proliferation
In preparing to expand sanctions on Iran this week, the governments of the European Union face a critical choice. They can carry on with their current strategy of relying chiefly on pinpoint designations against suspected nuclear proliferators. more...
Storming of the British Embassy in Tehran Will Only Damage the Regime
Two weeks after a huge explosion at a military base outside Tehran killed the Revolutionary Guards' top missile expert alongside 20 others, this week another explosion rocked Isfahan, the seat of a uranium conversion facility. more...
Deutschland Darf Sanktionen Gegen Iran Nicht Bremsen
Die Europäische Union stolpert durch eine neue Diskussion über Sanktionen gegen den Iran; die Mitgliedsstaaten haben mit der miteinander in Konflikt stehenden jeweiligen Außenpolitik zu kämpfen, um das Bemühen des Iran zum Erwerb von Atomwaffen zu vereiteln. more...
What Can Stop Iran Now? Nothing Much
The latest round of media hype on Iran offers much comic relief for an otherwise terrible truth. Iran can only be stopped from getting nuclear weapons by factors that are largely beyond the control of Israel, the Western world or the international community at large. more...
The EU’s Fragmented Iran Policy
The European Union is stumbling through a new Iran sanctions discussion, as member states wrestle with conflicting policies to thwart Iran's quest to obtain nuclear weapons. more...
Sanctioning Iran’s Military-Industrial Complex
As the United States and its allies have tightened sanctions on Iran, they have sought in particular to isolate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s most aggressive institution. more...
Reading IAEA in Tehran
Reading the Iranian press last week after the International Atomic Energy Agency released its report on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program elicited a sense of déjà vu more...
The Vienna-Tehran Connection
“In the first eight months of this year, Austrian firms supplied goods and services worth a total of 189 million euros to the Islamic Republic, more than, for example, to Israel, Thailand or Ireland,” the Vienna daily Die Presse reported recently. more...
EU Must Take Iran Action
For almost 10 years, the European Union has engaged Iran’s rulers in fruitless diplomatic efforts to halt their nuclear weapons program. Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that the Islamic Republic has conducted tests specific to building nuclear warheads. more...
Obama and the EU Could Stop Iran’s Nuclear Quest With Crippling Financial Sanctions
On Monday, November 14, only days after the United Nations' nuclear authority detailed Iran’s unlawful nuclear activities, a meeting of European foreign ministers came up short of sticks with which to change Tehran’s behavior. more...
Don’t Give Up on Sanctions
The release last week of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report on Iran’s progressing nuclear program has to make one wonder whether more than 30 years of sanctions have helped to thwart — or even stall — the country’s nuclear designs. more...
How to Target the Islamic Republic Diplomatically
The International Atomic Energy Agency report released on Tuesday confirmed the West’s suspicions that the Islamic Republic is working on a nuclear weapons system. more...
Iran: No More Doubts
After two weeks of speculation about a possible Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear installations, the Israeli government went silent - the onset of winter makes any military operation unlikely until the spring anyway and the media hype appeared to be a bluff. more...
Iranian Nuclear Details Should’ve Been Released Years Ago
A new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offers a detailed list of evidence in regard to Iran’s clandestine efforts to build a nuclear device and fit it onto long-range missiles. more...
How To Punish Iran
A U.N. report released Tuesday confirmed Western suspicions that Iran plans to build a nuclear weapon (PDF). In its report, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency noted that “Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.” more...
Why Has Canada Not Yet Banned Iran’s Terrorist Organization?
According to press reports, a United Nations organization has revealed that, "Iran's government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon." more...
Why Won’t Obama Sanction Iran’s Financial Lifeblood?
Details of this week’s International Atomic Energy Agency report have begun to leak, and they reveal new evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. more...
Has Evidence of Iran’s Nuclear Advances Been Withheld?
There are two embarrassing pieces of evidence buried in all the reporting about the IAEA quarterly report on the Iranian program, due to be released later this week. more...
US Backs Away From Sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank
The Obama administration has backpedaled from its tough talk about sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran, the country’s main financial institution for energy transactions. more...
German-Iranian Business Forum Sparks Outrage
A pro-Iranian business conference slated for Tuesday in Berlin triggered sharp criticism last week and on Saturday from European-based NGOs and Mideast experts because the event seeks to promote trade with the Islamic Republic. more...
Europe’s Attachment to Iran’s Regime
The Iranian regime’s plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States, which could have killed dozens of Americans in Washington, has not deterred Europe’s governments from continuing to embrace the leaders of the Islamic Republic. more...
Crippling Iran’s Central Bank
David S. Cohen, the US Treasury department’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, took a whirlwind tour last week of Paris, London, Berlin and Rome in an effort to convince Europe to ratchet up the pressure on Iran. more...
Lip Service is Not Enough
The Iranian threat to the security of the Jewish state played a front and center role last week at Europe’s largest ever pro-Israel conference in Frankfurt. more...
Analysis: Iran is Trying to Start a War
The news that Iran plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington DC by bombing a crowded restaurant is shocking - even more shocking if one factors in the stated intention to blow up the Israeli and Saudi embassies as well in the future. more...
Iran Took Chance in Changing Tide
When US Attorney-General Eric Holder announced during a press conference last week that the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency had thwarted a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US (via a bomb in a Washington DC restaurant) more...
Iran Shows Its True Colours
News of a thwarted Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States is still on the front pages. Yet already, some public officials and pundits are trying to suggest that the scheme actually is the work of “rogue elements” within the Iranian regime more...
When Tehran Attacks
On Tuesday, the U.S. government reported that it had foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., along with planned bomb attacks against the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington and possibly in Buenos Aires. more...
Iran’s Act of War
There is still much to learn about the Iranian-directed plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador in a Washington, D.C., restaurant. But if the Justice Department's information is correct, the conspiracy confirms a lethal fact about Iran's regime more...
What Europe Isn’t Doing to Stop Syria and Iran
As the world witnesses the Syrian and Iranian regimes commit countless human rights abuses and, in Iran’s case, move ever closer to perfecting its nuclear capabilities, there’s a common belief that, short of military intervention, there’s nothing that can be done. more...
Iran Terror Plot: Will America Finally Respond?
The Iranian assassination plot is a major escalation in Tehran's war on America. For three decades, the Iranian regime, the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, has murdered Americans abroad in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. more...
Why Isn’t Ahmadinejad on a No-Fly List?
This week, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is making his annual visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly. more...
Iran’s Making a Bomb, All Else is a Lie
Distracted by the Arab Spring and the latest Palestinian theatrics, the West has paid little attention to Iran in recent months. But revolutions or not, Iran's nuclear clock continues to tick and the hour of reckoning may now be near. more...
Economic Sanctions On Iran Haven’t Been Enough
Ten years after Sept. 11, the Islamic Republic of Iran constitutes the most serious threat to American national security, and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the world’s most deadly terrorist organization. more...
Tehran’s Ghost Fleet
This June, a merchant ship flying the Hong Kong flag and sailing under the name of the Atlantic called at the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas—the southern end of a trade corridor to the U.S., advertised as "the fastest route to the heart of North America." more...
A Still-Open Nuclear File
Syria's violations would be grave enough if al-Kibar reflected a Syrian attempt to build nuclear weapons for itself. They would be graver if Syria did it to share plutonium with Iran. more...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ‘Moderate’
In the ongoing clash between Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, analysts persist in trying to determine who's the more moderate: the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad, or Khamenei, the patron of Tehran's murderous revolutionary guards? more...
Austrian FM Faces Criticism for Visit of Iran Minister
Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger's decision to meet with sanctioned Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Tuesday triggered criticism from the Austrian Green Party. more...
The Case for Targeting Iran’s Petroleum Sales
Ever since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, assumed Iran’s presidency in 2005, his cohorts in the IRGC have been busy. more...
Congress Members Confront French Company Over Iranian Weapons
In separate efforts, Republican congressmen Mike Conaway and Peter King have confronted the world's third largest shipping company—the French-owned CMA CGM—for enabling Iranian arms to be smuggled aboard container ships. Some of the intended recipients of Iranian arms include the terrorist entity Hamas and perhaps other pro-Iranian regime states in Africa. more...
The Case for an Iranian-Oil-Free Zone
If we buy oil from despotic states, are we somehow complicit in their crimes? Even after the Arab Spring has highlighted tyranny in the Middle East, Americans and Europeans still generally remove oil and natural gas from their moral calculations. more...
Concern over German Iran Policies
Only hours before Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu touched down in Berlin for talks last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration announced that it would stop pumping billions of euros' worth of crude oil payments into Iran's coffers. The more...
Why Has Germany Snubbed Obama over Iran Sanctions?
Berlin — According to a front-page story in the main German business daily the Handelsblatt, “Although [Iran] is subject to strict economic sanctions by the EU and USA, Germany helps in circumventing them.” New disclosures this week have catapulted the Hamburg-based Iranian bank EIH, the German Foreign Ministry, and Germany’s central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) into a security disaster over Germany’s use of its bank system to finance Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. Apparently, the terror bank EIH — which the U.S. Treasury sanctioned “as one of Iran’s few remaining access points to the European financial system” — simply colluded with the Bundesbank and the Foreign Ministry to bypass EU and U.S. sanctions. more...
German Gov’t, Iranian Bank EIH Circumvent Sanctions’
BERLIN – New disclosures earlier this week have catapulted the scandal-plagued Hamburg-based Europäisch- Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), the German Foreign Ministry and Germany's Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) into a new controversy about Germany more...
How the Obama Administration Can Get Serious About Iran Sanctions
The Obama administration made the correct decision earlier this week to impose sanctions on Belarusneft, a subsidiary of the Belarusian petrochemical company Belneftekhim, for doing business with Iran. But it’s small beer – Belarusneft is hardly a major player in Iran’s energy industry. more...
Sanctions Must Respond to Iran’s Anti-Gay Genocide
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's lethal homophobia requires strong medicine. The international campaign to stop the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to death for alleged adultery, shows that the Islamic Republic of more...
The Italo-German Double Game in Iran
In 2010, Germany and Italy put themselves further on the wrong side of history. Although both countries agreed last summer to support new European Union sanctions against Iran, the latest data show that both countries have increased their trade with the more...
Data Shows German Trade with Iran Increased in 2010
BERLIN – Despite new rounds of UN and EU sanctions in 2010, German-Iranian export and import trade showed increases last year, according to an examination of new German government trade statistics last week by The Jerusalem Post. The fresh data also more...
Are EU Sanctions Influencing Iran’s Behavior?
Analysis: Many European states 'Switzerland, Italy and Austria have succumbed to Iran¹s game of fooling the West. more...
Killing Iran’s Energy Industry
The Reserve Bank of India has opened up a major new front in the global effort to tighten the economic screws on Tehran. more...
The Logic of Our Iran Sanctions
Even before the recent inconclusive nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva, President Barack Obama undoubtedly agreed with France’s national security adviser, Jean-David Levitte, when he described Tehran’s approach to nuclear negotiations with the West as a “farce” and the dictatorship of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as “fascist.” More aggressively than any president since Jimmy Carter, Obama has used sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The White House and the State Department have deployed a “coalition of the willing.” Washington has assiduously avoided punishing any major European, Russian, or Chinese transgressor of U.S.-mandated sanctions; rather, the administration has chosen to encourage compliance by underscoring the common threat of an Iranian bomb while suggesting that an American economic hammer, wielded by an increasingly pugnacious Congress, will eventually come down on malefactors. more...
Austria Under Fire for Promoting Trade with Teheran
The Austrian Chamber of Commerce's decision early this month to hold a workshop in Vienna to expand trade with Iran has sparked criticism from Austria's Jewish community and the European NGO Réalité EU. "The Chamber of Commerce is advising firms on how more...
Holland: Gas Companies Refuse to Fuel Iranian FM’s Plane
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki dropped his planned visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday because US sanctions meant his Iran Air plane might be refused fuel. "Mr. Mottaki canceled his visit because the government of the Netherlands more...
EU Iran Sanctions Don’t Prohibit Hamburg Bank
Israeli Embassy spokesman tells 'Post' there are “ongoing discussions” with “high-level German officials” about closure of Iranian EIH bank. more...
Egypt Helping Iran to Circumvent Sanctions
MIDB.jpgIf you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it's hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The mural has long been a symbol of Iran's deep disdain for Egypt's secular rulers, particularly their peace with Israel and their alliance with the U.S. The mutual animosity has endured over the years, from Egyptian support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War to the 2009 arrest of 26 members of an Iran-backed Hizbullah cell in Egypt. In recent years, Cairo has also expressed its staunch opposition to Iran's nuclear program, which Egypt and other Arab states view as a threat. more...
Kadima MK Calls on German Government to Confront Iran
Yohanan Plesner hopes "Germany will have the guts and wisdom to send a clear message,” because Germany and Israel share the same values. more...
EU Slaps New Sanctions Against Islamic Regime
The European Union implemented its new sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, targeting the country's energy, transportation and bank sectors with additional restrictions. The robust economic penalties were approved in July. On Wednesday, the EU spelled more...
Exposing the Nutrients: How to Improve Enforcement of Sanctions Against Iran
Can sanctions persuade Iran to renounce its quest for nuclear weapons? The international community's standoff with the Islamic Republic has now entered its eighth year, and there are no signs that Tehran will concede. Some skeptics of sanctions advocate more...
Put China To A Choice: Tehran Or Texas
As the Obama administration looks for ways to persuade Chinese energy companies to end their trade with the Iranian regime, China is seeking a strategic foothold in the United States energy sector. Earlier this week China's state-owned CNOOC signed a $2 more...
Iran’s Uranium Holdings
Despite international sanctions designed to derail Iran's nuclear program, the Islamic Republic legally owns 15 percent of the third largest uranium mine in the world. How is this possible? Ask the management of Rossing Uranium Limited in the southern more...
Protests Against Swiss Failure to Uphold Iran Sanctions
The Stop the Bomb coalition held demonstrations in front of several Swiss embassies in Europe on Monday, to protest Bern's support for the Iranian government and (EGL) Elektrizitätsgesellschaft Laufenburg's €18 billion-€20b. gas deal with Teheran. The more...
What’s Rankling the Swiss Foreign Ministry?
Switzerland's Social Democratic controlled Foreign Ministry is upset with THE WEEKLY STANDARD's criticism of how its foreign policies serve as a crutch for Iran's drive to obtain nuclear weapons and finance Hamas and Hezbollah. more...
Alinsky’s Rules for Obama’s Iran Strategy
Berlin - Pres. Barack Obama chose last week to sanction the Swiss-based Naftiran Intertrade (NICO) energy-trading company for violating the recently enhanced U.S Iran Sanctions Act, which bars significant investments in Iran's energy and gas sectors. more...
Will Obama Follow Through on Iran Sanctions?
After enacting comprehensive energy sanctions on companies that do business with Iran, and encouraging 31 other countries to follow suit, last Thursday the United States announced penalties against only a single firm for violating them. The U.S. more...
Wiesenthal Center: Boycott Royal Dutch Shell on Iran Trade
The Simon Wiesenthal Center called last week for a boycott of Royal Dutch Shell gas stations because of the energy company's increased import of Iranian crude oil. "We urge the public to avoid Shell gas stations and give their business to more...
Iran’s European Helpers
The European Union in July imposed unprecedented sanctions against Iran's energy and financial sectors. But despite the crackdown, some European companies continue to sign up for business deals in Iran that may be both directly and indirectly supporting more...
Stop the Bomb Protests Iranian ‘Terror Bank’
BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it has been abetting Iran's nuclear proliferation and missile more...
Why Is Switzerland Backing Ahmadinejad’s Iran?
Berlin - The European Union and the U.S. have passed tough sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector, but Switzerland's Social Democratic foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey is trying hard to undercut these effort to secure Middle East peace and Western security. more...
To Pressure Iran, Squeeze Russia and China
In 1996 Congress passed the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act with the aim of, among other things, pressuring the regime in Tehran to stop sponsoring terrorism. For a time, the sanctions did annoy those who wanted to invest in the Islamic Republic. But they soon more...
US Treasury Bans European-Iranian Bank from Operating in US
BERLIN – The US Treasury Department last week banned the Hamburg-based European-Iranian Bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank) from operating in the US because it finances companies that help Iran build weapons of mass destruction. more...
Why is Merkel Protecting Iran’s Terror Bank?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad and fanatical Islam triggered violent protests across the Muslim world in 2005. Westergaard will receive the “M100” media prize for his devotion (and unwavering courage) to press freedom. more...
The Iran-Houston Connection
Energy companies continue to leave the Iranian market in response to a series of new sanctions laws passed by the United States, the European Union, Canada and Australia, all of which are eager to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Some of these more...
Strategic Sanctions
When the White House invited a small group of senior journalists for a background briefing on Iran in early August, few expected the President to be the speaker. Barack Obama sparked excitement when he stated after a lengthy and healthy expression of scepticism about Iran's readiness to reach a compromise, that the door was still open to diplomacy. more...
Swiss-Iran Gas Deal Sends ‘Wrong Message’
BERLIN – Swiss energy giant EGL’s €18 billion gas contract with Iran prompted criticism on Tuesday from the US Embassy. more...
Texans Have Opportunity to Deter Iran’s Enablers
In the coming weeks, the State Department will provide President Obama with recommendations on how to implement Washington's tough new sanctions on Iran. The law imposes severe financial penalties on Tehran in hopes of preventing it from acquiring a more...
Swiss Energy Giant EGL Pursues Gas Deal with Iran
BERLIN – The Swiss energy group EGL's €18 billion gas contract with the National Iranian Gas Export Company faced criticism at a US congressional hearing in late July because of possible violations of American sanctions against firms active in Iran's gas more...
Sanctions Plus?
Suppose the tough, new sanctions passed into law by the U.S., the E.U., Canada, and Australia do not cause Iran’s Islamist rulers to halt their illicit development of nuclear weapons, curb their sponsorship of terrorism, and reduce their brutalization of their own population. Does that leave us with only terrible options? Does that leave us, as French president Nicolas Sarkozy phrased it, having to choose between an Iran with the bomb and the bombing of Iran? more...
EU Agrees to Stronger Iran Sanctions
The European Union announced today that it would be imposing robust sanctions on Iran, targeting its energy, shipping, insurance and financial sectors. After seven years of being out-negotiated and out-organized by the mullahs, the 27 member states of more...
Germany Robs Sanctions of Their Power
Germany is facing escalating criticism from local anti-nuclear activists and a sanctions expert in the United States for blocking tough EU sanctions against Iran, and specifically for not acting against the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank, which allegedly supplied Teheran with over a billion dollars for its nuclear and missile program. more...
Germany’s Chance to Get Serious on Sanctions
The European Union is slated this week to wrap up its new round of sanctions. The goal is to force Teheran to suspend its illicit nuclear program. After years of drowsiness, the EU is now amenable to inflicting real economic pain on the Iranian more...
Will Germany Continue to Prop up Iran’s Financial Terror Entities?
The European Union is slated this week to wrap up a new round of sanctions. Their goal is to force Iran to suspend its illicit nuclear program. After years of inaction, the European Union is now amenable to inflicting real economic pain on the Iranian more...
Tightening the Sanctions Noose on Tehran
In the coming days, the European Union will hopefully adopt tough new measures designed to push Tehran to halt its illegal nuclear activities. "Sanctions have become inevitable," EU leaders said last month in a statement. For years, Europe has been more...
Iran Sanctions Saga: Enter the EU
Next week the European Union will introduce new sanctions against Iran. These new measures, which expand UN sanctions and follow comparable measures in the United States, will target Iranian energy, air transport and shipping lines, and financial more...
German Bank Funding Iran Nuke Program
BERLIN – German authorities are facing criticism because of the role of a Hamburg-based Iranian bank in financing Teheran's nuclear and missile development programs. Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH) specializes in financing trade between Europe and more...
Significance of U.S. Treasury’s Iran Sanctions
The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced targeted financial sanctions on a long list of Iranian companies, people, and entities. Some of the designations specifically target Iran's nuclear and missile programs, while others target its energy more...
Can EU Sanctions Stop Iran?
The European Union announced today the imposition of tough sanctions targeting Iran’s energy, shipping, insurance, and financial sectors. After seven years of delay negotiating tactics by the Mullahs, the EU is no longer willing to be completely hoodwinked by the deceptive financial practices the Iranian regime uses to secure funding for its nuclear-weapons program and its terror entity, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). more...