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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

“Illicit funds funneled through this network support the regime’s ongoing terrorist operations, posing a direct threat to U.S. personnel, regional allies and the global economy,” the U.S. Treasury Department stated.
State gerrymandering efforts are a key battleground for control of Congress.
The U.S. Treasury warned governments risk sanctions for servicing blacklisted Iranian airlines, as Washington intensifies pressure on Tehran’s oil exports and transit routes.
The Liberian envoy said that the Islamic Republic’s siege of the pivotal Gulf waterway has led to “the creeping normalization of disruption as leverage.”
“This action cuts revenue streams that fund the regime’s destabilizing activities across the Middle East,” stated Tommy Pigott, State Department spokesman.
U.S. economic pressure on Tehran targets “both traditional sanctions evasion tools like front companies as well as the exploitation of innovative technologies like digital assets,” a U.S. official said.
The assessment calls for the return of Palestinian Authority governance and efforts to “advance a durable political settlement based on the two-state solution.”
Roy Altman sees his work through the Jewish prism of judges who are “of the people, to understand the community in which they live, their fears, their hopes, their aspirations.”
“The Iranian regime must be held accountable for its extortion of global energy markets and indiscriminate targeting of civilians with missiles and drones,” the U.S. treasury secretary stated.
“Our experience has taught us that innovation without deep human-centered caution can be as dangerous as the trauma itself,” said Maya Shany, Israeli youth delegate.
Reza Dindar is accused of using a China-based front company to procure U.S. goods and illegally route them to Iran in violation of export controls.
The U.S.-led forum focused on how to “effectively disrupt and deter Iran’s terrorist plots and other illicit schemes,” the U.S. State Department said.