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Bound By FATF for Refusing to Stop Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing

June 29, 2023

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By Rami Ayyub, Daphne Psaledakis and Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday placed sanctions on entities and people based in China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Iran for aiding the Iranian attack drone program, which Washington accuses of supplying such weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine.

The U.S. Treasury said it put sanctions on five entities and two people who were part of a network helping procure sensitive parts – including servomotors, which help control position and speed – for Iran‘s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program.

The network facilitated shipments and financial transactions for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ procurement of such motors used in Iran‘s Shahed-136 drones, it said, adding that a motor procured by the network was found recently in the remains of a Russia-operated Shahed-136 drone shot down in Ukraine.
“Iranian-made UAVs continue to be a key tool for Russia in its attacks in Ukraine, including those that terrorize Ukrainian citizens and attack its critical infrastructure,” Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson said in a statement.

Iran says it has not provided Russia with drones for use in Ukraine.

The United States and its allies imposed extensive sanctions on Russia after its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But supply channels from Black Sea neighbor Turkey and other trading hubs have remained open, prompting Washington to issue repeated warnings about the export of chemicals, microchips and other products that can be used in Moscow’s war effort.

Washington has also previously said there is “poor sanctions compliance” in the United Arab Emirates.

MOSCOW, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s secur

MOSCOW, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s security forces detained Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian administration, as he tried to leave the region, Russia’s RBC news outlet cited his wife as saying.

Vardanyan, a billionaire investment banker, served as the head of Karabakh’s separatist government between November 2022 and February 2023.

Vardanyan did not reply to messages sent by Reuters.

(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

By Ian Ransom
HANGZHOU, China, Sept 27 (Reuters) – On a pristine volleyball court on the seventh floor of a massive training centre in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, a team of Afghanistan women prepare for their first Asian Games in defiance of the Taliban government’s antipathy toward female sport.

Though separated from families and scattered across Asia, the volleyballers have assembled at the multi-sport event with the support of Olympic officials and the sport’s global federation.

Some fled Afghanistan when the Taliban came to power in the wake of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, fearing persecution from a government that has effectively banned women’s sport.

With little prospect of returning home, they have rebuilt their lives in Pakistan, Iran and other countries, playing sport in effective exile.

Now in Hangzhou, they yearn to give hope to the hopeless – the women athletes left behind in their homeland.

“Nowadays, they are looking for hope,” Mursal Khedri, a Pakistan-based, 24-year-old member of the volleyball team, told Reuters.

“By seeing us here they can find hope that we (women) can also participate in sports.”

The Taliban administration say they respect women’s rights in line with their interpretation of Islamic law and Afghan custom and that they have declared a “general amnesty” against their former foes under the previous foreign backed government.

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By Kayhan Life Staff The Iranian government has r

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The Iranian government has replaced nearly 20,000 school principals this year, Iran’s Minister of Education, Rezamorad Sahraei, has said.

“To transform our schools, nearly 20,000 school principals have been replaced this year,” the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported on Sept. 21, quoting Minister Sahraei. “Also, 7,000 additional schools have been marked for the same change. We will reform 5,000 schools this year.”

Mr. Sahraei announced the massive removal of school principals at the closing ceremony of the 14th Congress of the Union of the Islamic Student Association, marking the start of the Sacred Defense Week (commemorating the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War).

“All schools selected for reform are standard and government schools,” Sahraei noted. “God willing, [the measure] will instil a new spirit in these schools, which will work as a model for all other educational institutions in the country.”

“The enemy knows it cannot use ‘hard force’ against us because we are alert and strong,” Sahraei asserted. “However, modern warfare is fought inside minds [soft war], not on borders, which poses an even greater challenge given that it is invisible. That’s why organizing and planning are vital for exposing the truth and revealing the invisible through dialogue.”

“Hardcore revolutionary students must work together, because it was through cooperation that the Islamic Republic’s supporters became invincible after the [1979 Islamic] Revolution,” Minister Sahraei urged.

Sahraei’s “reform” program refers to the government’s “Fundamental Transformation of Education System Document,” which further enhances the pervasiveness of Islamic doctrine in school curriculums.

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Iran must take “de-escalatory” steps on its nuclear program if it wants to make space for diplomacy with the United States, starting by cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

The comments by spokesman Matt Miller at a briefing was the second time in recent days that the United States has criticized Iran for its decision to bar multiple IAEA inspectors assigned to the country, hindering the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s oversight of Tehran’s atomic activities.

The United States and many of its Western allies fear Iran’s nuclear program may be a cover for developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies having such ambitions.

“Iran must take de-escalatory steps if it wants to reduce tensions and create a space for diplomacy,” Miller said.

“Just in the last few weeks, we’ve seen Iran take steps to undermine the International Atomic Energy Agency’s ability to do its work,” Miller said. “So if Iran really is serious about taking de-escalatory steps, the first thing it (could) do would be to cooperate with the IAEA.”

Miller said the steps he was talking about as a potential prelude to renewed U.S.-Iran talks, whether direct or indirect, had to do with the Iranian nuclear program, though he did not provide further details.

However, asked if he was saying Iran must take all such steps sought by the United States before Washington would agree to direct or indirect talks with Tehran, he replied: “I am not saying that.”

The IAEA was responsible for verifying Iran’s compliance with the defunct 2015 Iran nuclear deal, under which Tehran curbed its nuclear program in return for the easing of U.S., European Union and U.N. sanctions.

Attempts to revive that deal, abandoned by then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018, collapsed about a year ago and Washington has been searching for a new way to get Tehran to restrain its program.

(Reporting By Humeyra Pamuk in Washington and by Arshad Mohammed in Saint Paul, Minn.; Writing by Arshad Mohammed; editing by Grant McCool)

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