Today, June 25, 2019, Iranian officials fired back at the United States sanctions announced by President Trump yesterday against the Iranian Ayatollah and other Iranian government leaders and organizations. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, took to Twitter today, tweeting that imposing sanctions on Iranian officials “is the permanent closure…
US Announces New Sanctions On Iran
June 24, 2019
Today June 24, 2019 President Trump announced new sanctions on Iran in response to “actions of the Government of Iran and Iranian-backed proxies, [including] those taken to destabilize the Middle East, promote international terrorism, and advance Iran’s ballistic missile program” as well as “Iran’s… targeting of United States military assets…
Global Task Force Imposes Continued Surveillance of Terrorism Funding in Iran
June 22, 2019
Yesterday June 21, 2019 the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global organization “combating the financing of terrorism”, called “upon members and [urged] all jurisdictions to require increased supervisory examination for branches and subsidiaries of financial institutions based in Iran” (1). The global task force noted Iran’s need to begin…
The United States and Canada Announce Sanctions Against Nicaragua
June 21, 2019
Today June 21, 2019 the United States and Canada imposed sanctions against Nicaraguan “key regime figures… pursuant to Executive Order 13851, which President Trump signed on November 27, 2018″(1). President Trump initially signed the executive order to address Nicaraguan President “Ortega regime’s systematic dismantling and undermining of democratic institutions and…