Iran, Islamic Republic of

U.S. federal prosecutors charged an Iranian intelligence official and three members of his network for a plot to kidnap a...

Once the most pirate-infested region on the planet, the waters off the coast of Somalia are now home to a different maritime...

The semi-independent government of the Kurdish region in the north of Iraq has since March 2020 been harshly cracking down...

A group of U.S. lawmakers intend to introduce three bipartisan bills designed to curb kleptocracy and corruption worldwide....

A secret kickback deal with an Iraqi Kurdistan politician made Todd Kozel rich. But an affair and his bitter divorce led him...

Turkish-Iranian money launderer Reza Zarrab helped the Iranian regime move oil money around the world to evade sanctions —...

Reza Zarrab’s fortune — and how much he retains even after his U.S prosecution — will never be known. U.S. officials won’t...

The roots of Reza Zarrab’s work on behalf of Iran go far deeper than has ever been revealed, his co-conspirator told OCCRP...

With attention focused on Zarrab and his Turkish co-conspirators, another network — operated by a man living in Stockholm —...

Hossein Pournaghshband, an Iranian citizen, was sanctioned by the United States in January 2016 for allegedly providing...

After 2003 Rose Revolution, Georgia invited everybody in. Now, with anti-immigrant groups staging street demonstrations and...

The word jihad, usually defined as a struggle against the enemies of Islam, took on a new meaning six years ago when Iran’s...