Top One Zone, LLC

​Tina Chen, also known as Ya When Chen, Wen Tina Chen, Tina Dunbar, and Tina Dubner, was the owner of Top One Zone, LLC, a company exporting electronic and computer components from her residence in Las Vegas, Nevada. Between November 2015 and May 2019, Chen conspired with others to purchase goods from U.S.

Niloufar Bahadorifar

​In April 2023, Niloufar Bahadorifar, a 48-year-old resident of Irvine, California, was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran and for structuring financial transactions. Bahadorifar provided financial services, including laundering money into the United States from Iran, which were used to pay private investigators to conduct surveillance on a prominent Iranian dissident residing in New York City.

Robert Thwaites

​In February 2020, Robert Thwaites, then 30 and residing in Dallas, Texas, was arrested alongside four others for conspiring to violate U.S. economic sanctions by attempting to purchase Iranian petroleum and sell it to a refinery in China. The group planned to use a Polish shell corporation to disguise the oil's origin and anticipated substantial profits, estimating approximately $28 million per month from two shipments. Additionally, Thwaites and a co-conspirator intended to obtain foreign passports to establish offshore accounts, thereby evading U.S.

Nicholas Hovan

In February 2020, Nicholas Hovan, then 33 and residing in New York, was arrested alongside four others for conspiring to violate U.S. economic sanctions by attempting to purchase Iranian petroleum and sell it to a refinery in China. The group planned to use a Polish shell corporation to disguise the oil's origin and anticipated substantial profits, estimating approximately $28 million per month from two shipments. On January 10, 2024, Hovan was convicted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for violating 18 U.S.C. § 371 and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Nicholas James Fuchs

​In February 2020, Nicholas James Fuchs, then 26 and residing in Dallas, Texas, was arrested alongside four others for conspiring to violate U.S. economic sanctions by attempting to purchase Iranian petroleum and sell it to a refinery in China. The group planned to use a Polish shell corporation to disguise the oil's origin and aimed for substantial profits, anticipating approximately $28 million per month from two shipments. Additionally, Fuchs and a co-conspirator intended to obtain foreign passports to establish offshore accounts, thereby evading U.S.

UANI’s Masters of the Ghost Armada: The Captains Steering Iran’s Illicit Oil Trade is a groundbreaking tool that identifies and tracks captains and chief officers serving on vessels sanctioned for illegally transporting Iranian oil. These maritime officers are not merely unsuspecting bystanders in this illicit trade.

Iranian Navy’s Visit to Malaysia Amid Renewed U.S. Pressure on Tehran 

Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in recent days marked the end of an era in Lebanon, as following the recent war with Israel, Hezbollah finds itself in an unprecedented situation. Its leadership is seen as weak and inexperienced, it has suffered significant military losses, and it is in a deep financial crisis. Most important is the fact the organization is cut off from its main logistical arena in Syria due to the fall of the Assad regime. 

China is principally responsible for keeping the Iranian regime in business through oil purchases that have totaled over $140 billion since President Biden assumed office in January 2021 . Four in every five barrels of exported Iranian oil go to China. This is despite U.S. sanctions that were reimposed in 2019 and maintained under the present administration, with the stated aim of reducing Iranian oil exports to zero.

For more than five decades, Hezbollah was the most successful model of Iran’s vision of exporting its Shiite Muslim revolution to other countries in the region. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, responsible for Tehran’s regional paramilitary and terror activities, invested hundreds of millions of dollars to transform Hezbollah into the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor and enable it to become Lebanon’s political hegemon.