Sanctions News tracks the latest developments in international sanctions and export control, and provides their legal analysis. Each publication sets out what has changed, on what grounds, for whom, and what this means in practical terms for the individuals and entities concerned.
On 22 September 2026 the Council of the European Union extended the individual restrictive measures adopted under the regime relating to the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It has been undergone for thirty-six instead of six, at the price of three delistings. Thereafter an analysis of a change of tempo whose effects reach far beyond the negotiation that made it possible.
On 17 September 2026, OFAC designated the Iranian platform BitBank, its developer and three members of Babak Zanjani’s network under U.S. sanctions. Beyond these new listings, that set of measures illustrates the mobilisation of the U.S. government against the infrastructures enabling the Iranian regime to use digital assets to dodge sanctions.
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