Matthew Karnitschnig
How China ended up financing the Houthis’ Red Sea attacks
China is unwittingly helping Iran choke off ship traffic in the Red Sea, impairing global trade flows and damaging Beijing’s own interests in the process, Western intelligence officials say.China’s illicit purchases of Iranian oil are indirectly financing...
6 months ago
The battle over Iran’s terror financing
It’s the Middle East’s quiet war. How can you cut Hezbollah off from its lifeblood — Iranian petrodollars?While the world’s attention has been focused on Gaza and the intensifying skirmishes farther north between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which dip...
1 month ago
Iran pays millions in ransom to end massive cyberattack on banks, officials say
A massive cyberattack that hit Iran last month threatened the stability of its banking system and forced the country's regime to agree to a ransom deal of millions of dollars, people familiar with the case say.An Iranian firm paid at least $3 million in r...
1 month ago
Germany’s rude economic awakening
BERLIN — Germany is finally emerging from the first stage of economic grief: denial.After years of turning a blind eye to what the rest of the world could plainly see, Germans are slowly coming to terms with the reality that they are in deep trouble as th...
3 weeks ago