U.S. Investigating Possible Stanchart Iran Breaches After 2012 Deal -CEO
By Lawrence White
LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are investigating whether Standard Chartered breached Iran-related compliance rules as recently as 2013, a year after it settled with them over earlier allegations of breaches...
Iran Is New Transit Point for Somali Charcoal in Illicit Trade Taxed by Militants:...
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Criminal networks are using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars annually in tax,...
U.S. Rejects Iran’s Legal Claim to Recover $1.75 Bln in Frozen Assets
THE HAGUE, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday asked judges at the International Court of Justice to throw out a claim by Iran to recover $1.75 billion (1.5 billion euros) in...
Iran Parliament Passes Measures Against Funding Terrorism
DUBAI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament approved new measures against funding terrorism on Sunday, changes that officials hope will move Tehran closer to global norms and help remove it from investment blacklists as...
Fraud – Accused Businessman Returns to Iran – State Media
DUBAI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - An Iranian businessman accused of defrauding thousands of investors was returned to Iran with Interpol's help on Saturday after he fled abroad, state media reported, a week after Tehran...
Single Iranian Women Still Banned from Foreign Travel Without Fathers’ Consent
The Judicial and Legal Committee of the Majlis (the Iranian Parliament) has rejected a proposal that would allow single women 28 years and older to travel abroad without the written consent of their fathers...
U.S. Withdraws from International Accords, Says UN World Court ‘Politicized’
By Roberta Rampton, Lesley Wroughton and Stephanie van den Berg
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday pulled out of two international agreements after Iran and the Palestinians complained to the International...
World Court Orders U.S. to Ensure Iran Sanctions Don’t Hit Humanitarian Aid
By Stephanie van den Berg
THE HAGUE Oct 3 (Reuters) - The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to ensure that sanctions against Iran, due to be tightened next month, do not affect...
World Court to Rule on Iran Plea to Lift U.S. Sanctions
By Stephanie van den Berg
THE HAGUE, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Judges at the International Court of Justice, the highest United Nations court, will rule Wednesday on an Iranian plea to have U.S. sanctions against...
Iran Sentences Three to Death in Drive Against Economic Crimes
DUBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Special courts set up in a drive against financial crime have sentenced three people to death in Iran, state television reported on Sunday, as the country faces renewed U.S....
