A bipartisan coalition of Congress members has introduced a bill that would make permanent U.S. sanctions on Iran’s energy sector. The Solidify Iran Sanctions Act—introduced on May 1 by Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Michelle Steel (R-Calif.), and Susie Lee (D-Nev.)—would make the sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 permanent as the latter is…
Security Minister Refuses to Confirm Government Action on Iran Revolutionary Guards
March 21, 2023
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Britain’s security minister has refused to definitively state whether a branch of Iran’s armed forces will be proscribed after increasing concerns over the regime’s activity in the UK. Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Tom Tugendhat declined to directly answer questions from several MPs on whether the UK will make the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…
Turkish Bank Urges Supreme Court to Halt Prosecution Over Dodging Iran Sanctions
January 17, 2023
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A bank controlled by Turkey told the Supreme Court Jan. 17 that it should not be criminally prosecuted in U.S. courts for allegedly helping Iran defy U.S. economic sanctions because it enjoys legal immunity as an arm of the Turkish government. The petitioner in the case of Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, court…
Australia Uses its New Magnitsky-Style Laws to Sanction Iran and Russia
December 12, 2022
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Australia is using its new Magnitsky laws to implement sanctions on 13 individuals and two entities from Iran, including members of Iran’s Morality Police and the Basij Resistance Force and six Iranian individuals who have been intrinsically involved in the crackdown on protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa ‘Jina’ Amini. Announcing the sanctions on…
New Zealand Imposes Travel Bans on 22 Iranian Security Guards
December 12, 2022
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The New Zealand government has placed travel bans on 22 Iranian security guards, including members of the morality police, who are connected to the death of Mahsa Amini and the violent response to protests that it sparked. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said New Zealand will always support the right to peaceful protest and condemned the…
Under the Biden Administration’s Watch, Iran Sanctions Are Violated With Impunity
Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary With total disregard to the Biden administration and the European powers, the ruling mullahs of Iran are defiantly and rapidly advancing their nuclear program to a point where they are now reportedly only few weeks away from manufacturing nuclear weapons according to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the White House. The…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Used Detainees as ‘Tool’: Former UK Foreign Secretary
The former British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has told a committee of MPs that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards often used their control of detainees like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a “tool” to prevent compromises they opposed. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, who had dual British and Iranian nationality, and who returned to the UK in March after spending six years…
Iran Imposes Sanctions on 24 Americans as Nuclear Talks Stall
DUBAI—Iran said on Saturday it had imposed sanctions on 24 more Americans, including former Army Chief of Staff George Casey and former President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, as months of talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal have stalled. Almost all the people named were officials who served during Trump’s administration, which imposed sanctions…
Don’t Reward Iranian Violence by Ending Economic Sanctions
Commentary To quote the U.S. Navy’s official announcement, on May 6 the cruiser USS Monterey “seized an illicit shipment of weapons from a stateless dhow in international waters of the North Arabian Sea.” The list of weaponry aboard the dhow included advanced Russian-made anti-tank missiles, around 3,000 Chinese assault rifles, several hundred light machine guns,…
‘Iran Not for Sale, China Get Out’: Iranians Protest Over Iran-China 25-Year Deal
April 8, 2021
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People took to the streets recently in Iran and other countries to protest an expansive, long-term deal that Iran has signed with China. Outside the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver on April 3, protesters held signs reading “Iran not for sale, China get out” and “Take your hands away from Iran.” On March 27, the foreign…
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