Emanuele Ottolenghi

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Blank stimulus checks are seen on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The first batch of rebate payments started hitting bank accounts last week through direct deposits. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials are visiting government check printing centers around the country on Thursday for events highlighting the fact that millions of rebate checks are in the mail.

Beltway Confidential

Treasury sanctions Hezbollah’s network in Colombia, but what took so long?

Emanuele Ottolenghi · September 21, 2023 8:10 pm

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during his annual state-of-the-nation address to the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Beltway Confidential

How human rights activists chased off Venezuela’s strongman

Emanuele Ottolenghi · January 25, 2023 11:00 am

From fentanyl to overfishing, China’s corruption demands legislative action

From fentanyl to overfishing, China’s corruption demands legislative action

Elaine Dezenski, Emanuele Ottolenghi · December 9, 2022 12:00 am

The Mystery Martyr

Emanuele Ottolenghi · February 23, 2018 9:30 am

The Iranian Express

Emanuele Ottolenghi · July 21, 2017 6:00 am

Even Seemingly Harmless Investments in Iran Will Flow to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

Saeed Ghasseminejad, Emanuele Ottolenghi · August 17, 2015 11:15 am

Obama’s Gift to the Ayatollah

Obama’s Gift to the Ayatollah

Saeed Ghasseminejad, Emanuele Ottolenghi · August 4, 2015 2:32 pm

Iran Made Illegal Purchases of Nuclear Weapons Technology Last Month

Benjamin Weinthal, Emanuele Ottolenghi · July 10, 2015 4:48 am

From left, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, and U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, line up for a press announcement after the end of a new round of Nuclear Iran Talks in the Learning Center at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)

National Security

Iran nuclear deal an abject capitulation

Emanuele Ottolenghi · April 2, 2015 10:02 pm

Iran’s Drug Problem

Emanuele Ottolenghi · February 22, 2013 8:44 pm

Iran’s Supreme Investor

Saeed Ghasseminejad, Emanuele Ottolenghi · January 5, 2013 7:31 pm

An Unholy Alliance

Benjamin Weinthal, Emanuele Ottolenghi · December 5, 2012 1:55 pm