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International Enforcement Actions
August 1, 2012
Four men were arrested by German federal authorities in Hamburg, Oldenburg, and Weimar on August 15, 2012, on suspicion of illegally supplying Iran with nuclear reactor components. The home and company of a businessman in Halle were also searched. The suspects are accused of having supplied specialized valves for a heavy water reactor under...
International Enforcement Actions
July 30, 2012
California resident and Iranian national Davoud Baniameri pleaded guilty on May 31, 2011 in U.S. District Court to attempting to illegally export to Iran 10 connector adapters for the TOW and TOW2 missile systems in 2009. He was sentenced to 51 months’ imprisonment on August 12, 2011. One of Baniameri’s two co-defendants, Andro Telemi, pleaded...
International Enforcement Actions
July 1, 2012
Parviz Khaki, a 43 year old citizen of Iran, and Zongcheng Yi, a resident of China, were indicted on July 12, 2012 for allegedly participating in a conspiracy between October 2008 and January 2011 to export to Iran U.S.-origin items used to construct gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment, without obtaining the required licenses. Khaki and Yi...
International Enforcement Actions
June 21, 2012
Richard Phillips was sentenced to 92 months in prison on June 21, 2012 after pleading guilty to attempting to export carbon fiber from the United States to Iran without obtaining the required license, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In October 2011, Phillips agreed to export a spool of aerospace-grade...
Articles and Reports
June 20, 2012
A third round of nuclear talks with Iran in as many months ended yesterday with the same disappointing result: no progress. After two days of negotiations in Moscow, Iran was still adamant in rejecting a call to stop enriching uranium up to 20 percent, and to close its provocative enrichment site at Fordow, which is tunneled into a mountain to...
International Enforcement Actions
April 15, 2012
Nigeria intercepted 13 containers of weapons from Iran on July 15, 2010, when they were unloaded in Tin Can Port, Lagos. The weapons, dispatched by Behineh Trading Co. of Tehran in violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1747, included 240 tons of ammunition (107mm rockets; 60mm, 81mm and 120mm mortar shells; grenades; and rounds of...
Speeches and Testimony
March 5, 2012
The assessment of my organization is that Iran will have limited nuclear weapon "breakout" capability by the end of this year, meaning the ability to produce fuel for one or more nuclear weapons in a short time.
To be clear, this doesn't mean a nuclear arsenal by the end of the year - more work would be necessary. Rather, the basic requirements...
International Enforcement Actions
February 7, 2012
New York resident, Jeng "Jay" Shih, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment and his company, Sunrise Technologies and Trading Corporation, was sentenced to 24 months’ corporate probation on February 17, 2012, after having pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court the previous October to conspiring to illegally export U.S.-origin computers to Iran....
International Enforcement Actions
February 1, 2012
David Levick, a 50-year-old Australian national, and his Sydney-based company ICM Components Inc., have been indicted for conspiring to defraud the United States and for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Arms Export Control Act. Between 2007 and 2008, Levick allegedly arranged for shipment from the United...
Policy Briefs
November 8, 2011
On November 8, 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran has covertly engaged in activities that suggest it is trying to build a nuclear weapon, and that some of these activities may be ongoing. According to the report, Iran has had an undeclared program to produce nuclear material, and has undertaken procurement, production...