‘Dark’ ship-to-ship transfers present daily risk in sanctioned tanker trades

When tankers carrying Iranian oil take steps to obscure where that commodity originated or where it is headed, Claire Jungman and her team are watc

Biden, Congress must take advantage of their chance to reset Iran policy

UANI Policy Director Jason Brodsky writes: "The Biden administration has held power for over two years but still lacks an Iran policy built for 202

UANI Impact: European Manufacturers Cut Ties With Iranian Engineering Firm Connected To The IRGC

Last week, following direct intervention by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), two European firms agreed to sever ties with Iran’s Aris Engineering Group (Aris), which specializes in oil and gas, petrochemicals, and mining, and lists among its “approved vendors” several entities linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Risks in the ‘dark’: When tankers transfer oil at sea to skirt sanctions

A group of nations at the International Maritime Organization have warned of the risk of an spill from tankers transferring oil at sea while maskin

17 Islamic Republic “Ghost Tankers” Transporting $1 Billion in Oil to Syria

… “This news is not surprising. Syria is a longtime ally of Iran, with a number of cooperation agreements on oil and other sectors.

Eye on Iran's Protests - May 18, 2023

In an effort to deter the Women, Life, Freedom revolution, the Islamic Republic has killed

Poloniex, LLC

Poloniex, LLC, a Delaware company with its principal place of business in Boston, Massachusetts that operated an online trading and settlement platform previously doing business as Poloniex Inc. (hereinafter collectively “Poloniex”) has agreed to remit $7,591,630 to settle its potential civil liability for 65,942 apparent violations of multiple sanctions programs.

Murad LLC

Murad, LLC (the “Company”), a cosmetics company based in El Segundo, California, has agreed to pay $3,334,286 to settle its potential civil liability for an apparent violation of OFAC sanctions on Iran. This apparent violation resulted from the Company’s participation in a conspiracy to engage in the unauthorized export of goods and services from the United States to Iran over an approximately eight-year period. The conspiracy, which ended in 2018, resulted in at least 62 exports of Company products, as well as the export of services to Iran, totaling more than $11 million.

Behind the results in Persikos

…In February 2022 the Suez Rajan was spotted offloading Iranian oil from another tanker off the coast of China, in violation of the US embargo on I

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