Well, the two men have spoken. On Friday, President Obama called Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as the latter was leaving for Tehran following a four day tour to New York to take part in the annual United Nations General Assembly.…
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New OFAC General Licenses for Iran Humanitarian and Athletic Activities
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today issued two general licenses (E and F) related to certain humanitarian and athletic activity involving Iran. This is but one more step in the direction of the…
Happy Ending to the Sanctions Tennis Story
For those wondering about the previous post regarding Iranian tennis referee Adel Borghei, happy news to report in case you have not kept up with the news (there was quite a lengthy follow-up article in the New York Times, which…
Farhad Alavi Quoted by New York Times
I was quoted in the New York Times on an article regarding the impact of sanctions on the rescission of an employment offer by the US Tennis Association (USTA) to an Iran-based tennis referee. The article discusses the on the…
The Great Sanctions Shipping Saga
It has been a number of years that the United States has been chasing down the Iranian shipping industry. Some years ago, OFAC designated the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and a number of Iranian vessels on the…
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Farhad Alavi Quoted by Financial Times on Impact of New Iran Sanctions
Farhad Alavi, principal of Akrivis Law Group and editor of this blog, was quoted in an article in Thursday’s Financial Times. In this article, titled “West increases penalties for business with Iran” (a similar article was also published with the headline…
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Farhad Alavi Quoted in the UAE’s The National
I was quoted in Abu Dhabi-based The National, the leading English-language daily, with quotes in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, July 3. More specifically, the quotes are in two articles addressing the latest round of U.S. sanctions that went…
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Farhad Alavi Quoted in the UAE’s The National
I was quoted in Abu Dhabi-based The National, the leading English-language daily, with quotes in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, July 3. More specifically, the quotes are in two articles addressing the latest round of U.S. sanctions that went…
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Will Iran’s Presidential Elections Impact the Sanctions?
With a day left before polls open in Iran, there’s been much press given to this year’s presidential elections in Iran. Some have written these elections off due to the limited power the President holds in Iran and some have…
OFAC Loosens Restrictions on Computing and Telecom-Related Exports to Iran
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today made a sweeping change to laws governing the exportation by US persons (as defined in the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations or ITSR) of certain computer, telecommunications,…
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