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That Argentina would re-launch its nuclear program should come as no surprise. What do you expect when megalomaniac Hugo Chavez announces he will start a nuclear program with the help of Russia and Iran?
According to AFP, Argentine President Christina Kirchner said yesterday that they would re-start old uranium enrichment facilities. Kirchner, a [...]
Senior Members of Congress Weighing In: Nyet!
Four Members of Congress have penned a terse warning letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressing “great concern” about the propose sale of an American-owned uranium processing facility to an entity with ties to the Russian government.
Congress is in recess until after the November elections. Possible CFIUS review in the offing a’la Dubai Ports? Uranium One USA officials told the media recently that it would be “highly unlikely” that a proposed buy out by a Russian company — an entity that may be linked to proliferation activities — would [...]
Syria — under U.S. law designated a state sponsor of terrorism – is lamenting that it will not be able to upgrade its state-owned and operated airlines fleet with European-made Airbuses. Abdallah Dardari, Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, told the media this week that he was shopping for “planes with less than [...]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published today Congressionally mandated regulations to implement the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA). President Barack Obama signed CISADA into law earlier this summer.
While CISADA specifically targets Iran’s energy sector, the law is already having a [...]
The Rocky Mount Instrument (“RMI”) company yesterday pled guilty to one count of violating U.S. export control laws. The court sentenced the company to five years probation and a $1 million fine. ”Today’s guilty plea and sentencing against RMI illustrates that illegally exporting sensitive U.S. technology is a crime taken seriously by the U.S. Government,”
The Bipartisan Policy Center will host a conference tomorrow at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC: the State of Intelligence Reform. UK high-tech speedboat seems to have finally “floated” past U.S. and U.K. export controls, into Iranian arms. In 2009, the U.S. Government added six parties to a Temporary Denial Order [...]
The French government confirmed yesterday that it would proceed with the proposed sale of a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship to Russia. The announcement was made during a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Bill Gates. Nothing like French hospitality to set the tone for an official visit with an ally.
This deal has been [...]
According to DEBKAfile, a “senior official in the Obama administration described the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors’ discovery of traces of highly processed plutonium at the bombed Syrian-North Korean facility at Dir a-Zur as a “smoking gun” – evidence of Iran’s covert nuclear activities and proliferation.” The continued standoff between Iran and the world [...]
The Department of Justice and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced yesterday that a Dutch aviation services company – Aviation Services International, B.V. (“ASI”) - its director and sales manager pled guilty to federal charges related to a conspiracy to illegally export aircraft components and other items from the United States to [...]
The Russian military naval exercises in South America are somewhat of a nostalgic novelty item. It is more annoying than serious a matter. The nuclear cooperation chatter with anti-American leaders in the Western Hemisphere is quite another matter.
At its core, the Russians are upset that the U.S. is working with the Czechs and Poles on a missile defense shield [...]
“If the [INKSA] waiver is to be granted, and it appears that it must be in order to ensure safety, redundancy, and continuity, it should include some sort of escape clause for early termination; and it should not be granted until NASA promises that the space shuttle program will not be scrapped…”
The Russians appear to be enjoying lately publicly challenging the [...]
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The following piece by Jason Poblete, "U.S. export control reform: a view from across the pond,"was recently published in the World Export Controls Review journal WorldECR.
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