The sanctions target entities in Iran, China, Russia, and Turkey for aiding the production, maintenance, and procurement of drone and military aircraft by Iran.
September 23, 2023The sanctions by the US, UK, Canada and Australia come one year after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran's Morality Police.
September 18, 2023Employees at a UAE subsidiary of a US firm falsified documents in an attempt to disguise the transactions involving the re-export of US-origin goods to Iran.
August 18, 2023$7bn of Iran's funds have been frozen in South Korea since May 2019, after sanctions waivers for oil imports were allowed to expire.
August 14, 2023The move is a response to "more than 15 credible threats" by the Iranian regime to "kill or kidnap British or UK-based individuals".
July 10, 2023AML think tank Themis says the threat Russia poses to the integrity of the global financial system has been increasing.
June 28, 2023Canada says Iran's Revolutionary Courts are "notorious for issuing death sentences and harsh prison terms following sham trials and based on evidence gathered under torture".
June 20, 2023Roundtable participants said lessons should be learnt from the significant penalties that drove banks to observe the Iran sanctions regimes.
June 12, 2023Ukraine says Russia has engaged in money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorism financing, human trafficking, proliferation financing, and cyber-attacks.
June 9, 2023The sanctions came the same day Iran unveiled its first hypersonic ballistic missile, which cannot be detected and tracked by existing sensor systems.
June 7, 2023