A Tehran – Tel Aviv – Cambridge – Washington DC Panel on #Iran Elections

~ Meir Javedanfar

A conversation between Iran observers and experts in Iran, Israel, US and the UK will take place online, the night before the upcoming Iran presidential elections.

Panel title: On the Eve of the 2021 Iranian Elections: What Can We Expect?

Join:

Professor Sadegh Zibakalam from Tehran

Meir Javedanfar from Tel Aviv

Alex Vatanka from Washington DC and

Professor Roxanne Farmanfarmaian from Cambridge

Date:

Thursday 17 June 2021

Time:

18:30 to 20:00 (UK time)

20:30 – 22:00 (Israel Time)

13:30-15:00 (Eastern Standard Time)

You can register to attend the event online below:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WolCMKGYR7-bSTzMfQyT3g

This event is hosted by

The International Team for the Study of Security Verona

Department of War Studies, King’s College

on trump’s new banking sanctions against iran

~ Meir Javedanfar

According to the AP: today, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions as a result of which virtually all of Iran’s financial sector has been blacklisted.

In my opinion, these new sanctions are:

1. a last ditch effort by Trump to force #Iran to negotiate before US elections. Trump wants to tell voters his Iran pressure policy worked.

2- Iran banks are already blacklisted by the FATF (Financial Action Task Force). This is because Iran failed to ratify anti-money laundering conventions. Therefore, I am not sure how much more damage Trump’s new banking sanctions can cause.