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Nov 15, 2022, 9:06 AM

EU Knew But Did Nothing To Stop Iran Drones From Killing Ukrainians

This week the EU sanctioned the two main entities responsible for drone production in Iran. Yet for over four months, the EU sat on its hands as Russia accumulated in plain sight a stockpile of Iranian drones to launch...

May 23, 2021, 10:55 PM

Don’t Mention the Uighurs

Nothing enrages the mullahs in Tehran more than the existence of the world’s only Jewish state, especially when the Palestinian conflict is roiling. So, as the IAF responded to 4,000 Hamas missiles raining down on Israeli civilians over the...

Oct 9, 2020, 4:33 PM

Iranian Sanction-busting Money Transfer Websites Target AMEX, Visa, MasterCard

Yesterday, the U.S. sanctioned Iran’s remaining 18 banks from the SWIFT financial messaging network in a move designed to cover the entirety of the financial sector. While the focus on banks is welcome, a broad designation will also degrade...

May 11, 2020, 11:57 PM

Happy Birthday to the Tehran Times

On the occasion of its 41st birthday last week, Iran’s leading English-language newspaper commissioned a slew of editors past and present to pay tribute to the work of the Tehran Times in a special anniversary edition. Two themes stand out. First,...

Feb 26, 2020, 8:14 PM

Iran Only Has Itself to Blame for Financial Terror Blacklisting

Iran’s predictable response to being blacklisted by the world’s premier financial terrorism monitoring agency was to point the finger of blame at everyone else. According to the Foreign Ministry, the decision by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to...

Nov 13, 2019, 10:21 AM

Europe finally on board with US on Iran’s terror airline

In 2011, the United States designated Mahan Air as Iran’s ‘terrorist airline.’ As the Treasury designation noted, Mahan Air services the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), providing “transportation, funds transfers and personnel travel services” to the fanatical terrorist arm...

Jul 18, 2019, 5:49 PM

Tightening the Petrochemicals Net

Last month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Iran’s biggest petrochemical holding company, Persian Gulf Petrochemical, and reaffirmed its threat to “vigorously enforce” existing sanctions on Iranian petrochemicals exports – which provide the Iranian regime with $13 billion...

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Daniel Roth is Director of Research at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) in New York. He leads UANI’s business intelligence and corporate engagement efforts.