Iran is one of the world leaders in Shariah-compliant finance. Iran is also the world leader in Jihadist terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This is, of course, no coincidence. Iran has been targeted by international economic sanctions due to its uranium enrichment program and its support for Jihadist terrorism. What many […]
In a move that illustrates the incredible weakness of US counterterrorism efforts, the US Treasury, in what can only be described as a cynical gesture, has “triumphantly” announced sanctions against a Hezbollah jihadist terrorist who killed and tortured US GIs in Iraq. The US could have and should have remanded this monster into permanent custody, […]
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Hezbollah Leaders for Support for Syria
The Treasury Department announced on Thursday, September 13 additional sanctions against Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon for its support of the Syrian Assad regime. The obvious question here is: WHY ARE THERE ANY MORE SANCTIONS LEFT TO IMPOSE OF HEZBOLLAH’S LEADERS??? What has the US Treasury Department been doing for the past 30 years if there […]
US Imposes Sanctions on Eight Lashkar e Taiba leaders
The US Treasury Department has designated eight leaders of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as terrorists and placed sanctions on them, holding them accountable for the Mumbai attacks in 2008, and attacks on coalition and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. The designation bars US citizens from engaging in transactions with the designees and freezes the assets of the designees under […]
Recently we reported that Standard Chartered bank had been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for conducting transactions with Iran, the world’s foremost sponsor of Jihadist terrorism: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2012/08/13/standard-chartered-bank-helped-iran-hide-transactions-in-defiance-of-us-sanctions/ Standard Chartered’s Iranian affairs are doubly worrisome given the bank’s leadership role in promoting Shariah-Compliant Finance in the West. No patriotic American should have anything to do […]
First it was HSBC, which was fined $1 billion for knowingly looking the other way on transactions involving Iran. Then it was Standard Chartered, which was fined $340 million. Now it’s Deutsche Bank’s turn. Can we now say that the Shariah Finance promoters COMMONLY do business with terrorist regimes in violation of US sanctions? And […]
US Treasury Claims Sanctions Hitting Al Qaeda Hard
The US Treasury claims that its targeted sanctions program is hitting Al Qaeda and rogue nations, such as Iran, hard. We’ve no doubt that Iran, the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism, has been substantially effected by sanctions and we would concede that Al Qaeda has no doubt been impacted in some way. But […]
Judson Phillips over on Tea Party Nation has an important story up today. A U.S. court found Iran responsible for the 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks bombing that killed 241 Marines, soldiers and sailors. Iranian assets are frozen in the U.S. and the surviving families of those U.S. servicemen deserve to be compensated using those assets. […]
US government: Al Qaeda Faces Severe Financial Strain Due To Sanctions
We’re usually rather skeptical of these claims that sanctions are impacting known terrorists, but there may be some truth to this report. On the other hand, the system of zakat going to Islamic charities that then send a portion to Jihadist groups has not ended in the Islamic world, nor is it likely to any […]
Perhaps if the UAE hadn’t looked the other way on so many dual-use imports into Iran for years and years, they wouldn’t be under so much pressure today. With the imposition of the latest international economic sanctions against Iran and the UAE being under pressure from Washington to enforce them, Tehran’s trade ties with the […]
The European Union widened sanctions against Syria in a push to end a violent crackdown on opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, adding 18 people including senior military and intelligence officials to its blacklist. The EU measures, approved by the bloc’s 27 governments yesterday, impose asset freezes and a travel ban on people who are said to […]
UN Monitoring Group to Call for Sanctions Against Al Shabaab
The United Nations special envoy for Somalia says a Security Council-appointed monitoring group will recommend sanctions against the al-Qaida linked militant group al-Shabaab. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/UN-Monitoring-Group-to-Recommend-al-Shabab-Sanctions-133846953.html
US and international sanctions against Iran have long been regarded as something of a joke by many observers. The idea that the US has had tough, tight economic sanctions against Iran has largely been a myth for years. The latest illustration of America’s leaky sanctions against the world’s foremost sponsor of Jihadist terrorism and proliferator […]
Germany is resisting international pressure to freeze the activities of an Iranian-owned bank based in Hamburg that U.S. officials say provides the financial lifeblood for some of Iran’s blacklisted companies. U.S. and European Union officials in recent months have stepped up pressure on Germany to close down the European-Iranian Trade Bank AG—including a Feb. 2 […]
The excellent Jonathan Schanzer explains the double-game that Egypt, a nation that receives billions of dollars of US foreign aid, is playing to enable Iranian treachery and aggression…. If you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it’s hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in […]
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