Sanctions
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Economic
sanctions
and political isolation have, of course, deeply hurt the regime, especially the Revolutionary Guards, whose leaders and industries have been directly targeted by the international community.
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Now anonymous companies are great for
sanctions
busting too.
As the Iranian government found out when, through a series of front companies, it owned a building in the very heart of Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue, despite American
sanctions.
So when a terrorist is corresponding with somebody else who's not known to us but is engaged in doing or supporting terrorist activity, or someone who's violating international
sanctions
by providing nuclear weapons-related material to a country like Iran or North Korea, is trying to hide that activity because it's illicit activity.
And even five years ago, many people would have said that bank secrecy will be with us forever in Switzerland, that Switzerland was too powerful for the rest of the world, and then suddenly it took a few U.S.
sanctions
against Swiss banks for a big change to happen, and now we are moving toward more financial transparency.
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