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A nuclear agreement with Iran could give Tehran a $100 billion financial windfall—a sum that even the Obama administration is concerned could be used to finance terrorism against American interests.
HSBC Holdings Plc, smarting from a $1.9 billion fine for providing banking to money launderers and sanctions-dodgers, promised U.S. officials it would clean up its act.
The dirty secret in the global effort to combat money laundering: despite the United States positioning itself as a leader in financial regulation, state incorporation laws here create a massive loophole that terrorists, tax evaders, and other nefarious figures can exploit.
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that the United States was moving too slowly to prevent the use of shell and front companies to hide ownership.
Described by UNESCO as “one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world,” the archeological city of Palmyra is a celebrated World Heritage Site in Syria. Although the site has survived numerous empires and wars over thousands of years, the city now faces extinction.
With foreign ministers from around the world arriving here in hopes that the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program are entering their final hours, a senior Iranian official said on Monday that Tehran was demanding that all United Nations sanctions against his country — including the ban on the import or export of conventional arms — be lifted as part of any deal.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have done very well out of international sanctions -- and if a nuclear deal is done in Vienna this week under which those sanctions are lifted, they are likely to do better still.
World powers and Iran have reached a tentative agreement on sanctions relief, diplomats said yesterday, stoking fears that easing economic penalties against the Islamic Republic may mean more money for terror groups in the Middle East.
A suicide bomber has attacked a church in Nigeria, capping a week in which more than 200 people died in Boko Haram violence.
Iran wants to double its crude exports soon after sanctions are lifted and is pushing other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to renew the cartel’s quota system, a top Iranian official said.