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Here’s How the United States Can Help Iran's Flood Recovery

Here’s How the United States Can Help Iran's Flood Recovery

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
Policy

◢ In order improve preparedness for frequent earthquakes, floods, sandstorms, and heat-waves, Iran urgently needs to upgrade its surveying and monitoring technologies to better model and predict meteorological, hydrological, and geological events. The United States should create a new general license to remove the sanctions-related barriers to Iran’s acquisition of these much needed technologies.

US Officials Warn of ‘Deceptive Web’ of Iran Business, But Hamper Transparency Efforts

US Officials Warn of ‘Deceptive Web’ of Iran Business, But Hamper Transparency Efforts

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
Economy

◢ In a recent speech, Under Secretary of the Treasury Sigal Mandelker warned that foreign companies that maintain a presence in Iran must conduct “extra due diligence to keep them from being caught in Iran’s deceptive web.” But background conversations with several compliance specialists reveal that US sanctions are a major barrier to key AML/CTF reforms in Iran. Industry-standard compliance software is not accessible for Iranian end users, leaving some experts to conclude that Iran is being “set up to fail.”