It has been alluded to here, before, that the Iran-Venezuela marriage of convenience opened all matter of possible avenues for troublemaking, but the specific concern that Iran would use Venezuelan front-banks to get around the sanctions regime aimed at denying nuclear technology to Iran has been more a matter for quiet side discussions...
...until now.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has just promulgated a ban on Banco Internacional de Desarrollo, C.A., of Caracas. Note this is neither of the Venezuelan banks of similar names, but an Iranian-funded entity. An Iranian exchange company, a stock brokerage, and a bank, all based in Iran also got the hammer.
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Here's what Counterterrorism Blog has on this item, with links to previous analysis there. Their work focuses on the Iranian bank and then looks outward at what it is connected to.
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