April 23, 2024

A Roadmap for the Foreign Terrorist Organizations List

The Washington Institute
Patrick Clawson
Posted: April 25, 2008
Although the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list has a set of criteria for designating groups, there is little clarity in practice about the process for revocation. Even after organizations have renounced terrorism for many years, their designations persist without a clear explanation, and are based on the assumption that historical […]

Iran Watch – November 2, 2007

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By: By PATRICK CLAWSON and MICHAEL JACOBSON
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. ratcheted up the financial pressure against Tehran last week, unilaterally slapping sanctions on Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, three state-owned banks, and a number of key officials for their involvement in the regime’s terrorist financing and WMD-related […]