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

Risky Business: Tourists Taken Hostage By Iran Not Of Concern To Irresponsible Travel Companies

Nearly three full years after being taken hostage while in the Islamic Republic as a tourist, French national Benjamin Brière was released by the Iranian regime on Friday along with Bernard Phelan, a Paris-based travel consultant and French-Irish dual national similarly taken by the regime while traveling in Mashhad, Iran in October 2022.  

Iran’s Aggressive Actions Draw Mixed Messages From Washington

…Washington, though, is yet to hold Tehran accountable.

Iran’s Stepped-Up Aggression in the Gulf Has the Region on Alert

…The organization United Against a Nuclear Iran said in a statement that it “strongly suspects the seizure of the Niovi is related to a dispute ove

Eye on Iran's Protests - May 11, 2023

The Islamic Republic intensified its crackdown over the past week, as it tries to create an a

Executions Spike While Governments Struggle To Keep Pace With Human Rights Sanctions

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