Bloomberg - The U.S. Treasury Departments top sanctions official, Sigal Mandelker, plans to leave the Trump administration after helping to increase the pace of economic penalties against American adversaries. Mandelker, who joined the Treasury Department in June 2017, has helped lead new sanctions on countries including North Korea, Russia, Venezuela,...

The Wall Street Journal - The U.S. on Tuesday warned companies against dealing with Iranian airlines, alleging that many of them support Iran in regional violence by transporting fighters and weapons to international locations. Entities that provide services for designated Iranian airlines, including financing, reservations and ticketing as well ...

Bloomberg | Jonathan Stearns and Helene Fouquet: The Trump administration escalated its battle with European allies over the fate of the Iran nuclear accord, threatening penalties against the financial body created by Germany, the U.K. and France to shield trade with the Islamic Republic from U.S. sanctions. Sigal Mandelker, the Treasury Departments ...

Sputnik - The US announced the re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran that were previously lifted under the JCPOA on 5 November. Prior to this date, Washington had warned the Belgium-based organization working with interbank transactions that it would also fall under sanctions if it continued to work with Iranian banks. Deputy Secretary ...

Reuters - The United States is not too concerned by Europes idea for a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to get around U.S. sanctions with Iran as companies are already withdrawing from the country in droves, the senior official for financial intelligence said. I think the bigger news in Europe is that companies are withdrawing from Iran in droves, ...

The Washington Post | Carol Morello: February was a typically busy month for U.S. officials who announce government sanctions. One package of measures issued by the Treasury Department targeted North Korea, with dozens of ships, companies and other entities cited for shipping coal andfuel to the country in violation of previous sanctions. Before the ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: In a recent speech, Under Secretary of the Treasury Sigal Mandelker warned thatforeign companiesthat maintain a presence in Iran must conduct extra due diligence to keep them from being caught in Irans deceptive web. Mandelker has been touring countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, engaging governments ...

NBC News - The United States warned governments and the private sector on Tuesday to crack down on what it described as Iranian efforts to exploit them to fund its support for terrorism, destabilizing actions in the region and rights abuses at home. The appeal, in a speech by the senior U.S. Treasury official for terrorism and financial intelligence,...

Tasnim The United States on Tuesday welcomed a push by some EU states to impose new sanctions on Iran. Speaking in London at the start of a tour of European signatories to that deal, Sigal Mandelker, US Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said sanctions were an important part of a comprehensive effort to counter ...