• May 18, 2024

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OFAC Takes Aggressive Action Against Venezuela

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-takes-aggressive-action-venezuela/"></div>On May 18, 2017, acting pursuant to Executive Order 13692, OFAC designated eight members of Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice for judicial decisions that allegedly “usurped the authority of Venezuela’s democratically-elected legislature."<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via

Inaugurating the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/inaugurating-the-terrorist-financing-targeting-center/"></div>The United States has entered a historic agreement with its Gulf Arab partners to target terror finance networks. But is the news of this agreement all good?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on get_the_excerpt

Have We Entered a New Phase of Iran Sanctions?

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/entered-new-phase-iran-sanctions/"></div>Some allege that the Trump administration is taking a more punitive approach towards Tehran.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on get_the_

OFAC Issues FAQs on Delisting Petitions

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-issues-faqs-delisting-petitions/"></div>On April 20, 2017, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding petitions for removal from OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List).<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!--

Does New Senate Bill Designate IRGC a Terrorist Group?

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/new-senate-bill-designate-irgc-terrorist-group/"></div>The answer is more complicated than might be expected.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><div

Is There a “Policy Gap” in IRGC Sanctions?

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/policy-gap-irgc-sanctions/"></div>Is there a "policy gap" regarding U.S. sanctions targeting the IRGC and its designated agents or affiliates? Proposed legislation seems to think so, yet I am skeptical that this is the case. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share

So You Want to Reside in Iran?

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/want-reside-iran/"></div>If a U.S. person is interested in moving to Iran on a permanent basis, can that U.S. person open a bank account there without falling afoul of U.S. sanctions? <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via

IRGC Sanctions: A (Brief) History

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/irgc-sanctions-brief-history/"></div>Reports indicate that the Trump administration is considering the promulgation of an Executive Order that would direct the Secretary of State to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – a branch of Iran’s armed forces – a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). As the […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --&

Is It a New Day in Iran Sanctions?

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/is-it-a-new-day-in-iran-sanctions/"></div>Some are characterizing OFAC's latest designations of Iran-related persons as evidence of a new aggressive posture by the Trump administration. But the facts may well tell a different story.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on

Did Rex Tillerson Violate the ITSR? Likely Not.

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/did-rex-tillerson-violate-the-itsr-likely-not/"></div>Rex Tillerson, PEOTUS's nominee to lead the State Department, is expected to face tough questioning during his nominating hearing this morning. Late-inning news reports will place Iran sanctions front-and-center. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on