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Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
Today is a reminder of why the U.S.-Israel partnership matters for national security. The threats posed by Iran and its proxies like Hamas don't stop at Israel's borders. Shared intelligence and a joint defense make both nations safer. 2/3
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
New: Sen. Shaheen, top SFRC Dem, defends Russia sanctions bill in letter to House members, railing against fellow Dems who have argued that the bill gives Trump unlimited tariff authority.
“This is a gross mischaracterization,” Shaheen writes
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
Where does Iran's sanctions-evasion economy live? This🧵maps the ecosystem of Iran's sanctions evasion, hub by hub:
Of 926 companies running trade and procurement for Iran and designated by @USTreasury and @StateDept, 85% sit abroad, and two hubs dominate: Hong Kong (179) and the UAE (167). Only 141 (15%) are inside Iran and the rest are spread across more than 40 jurisdictions: Marshall Islands 95, mainland China 76, India 48, Turkey 42, Panama 29, Singapore 21, Seychelles 19, Liberia 18, and UK 15.
Hong Kong's entries are overwhelmingly single-purpose front companies in shared industrial-building addresses, set up for shadow banking and oil brokerage.
The UAE is the largest host of operating businesses: trading LLCs, ship managers, exchange houses. More on both next. (1/9)
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
House to prep Russia sanctions bill on Monday. Passed the Senate overwhelmingly earlier this summer
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The UK's new Iran sanctions restores the sectoral bans that EU lifted in 2016 as part of the Iran nuclear deal (banking, insurance, energy, metals, gold, software, shipping), and adds a power to sanction individual ships, and bans Iranian aircraft from landing in the U.K.
What the U.K. new Iran sanctions mean; on paper, a lot but in practice, it depends on enforcement. UK-Iran trade is negligible and US secondary sanctions have kept British firms out for years. The marginal bite is the UK nexus: Lloyd's insurers and P&I clubs, sterling clearing, UK-flagged tonnage, software exporters, and the regime's sanctions evader based in London.
Without OFSI/FCDO investigations, actions and penalties, this is a positive press release with a statutory instrument number.
Iranian banks in London. Melli Bank plc, Persia International Bank plc and Bank Saderat's UK arm were already asset-frozen on 29 September 2025; Bank Sepah International returned under the UN listing. Their wind-down licence expired in November. Today changes little for them since they are frozen shells.
UK publishes legislation for tougher sanctions on Iran over nuclear programme reut.rs/3SCnkIF reut.rs/3SCnkIF
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
🚨The FDD Action-endorsed GUARD Act just passed subcommittee markup. It’s an important step to protect America from Chinese-controlled tech.
Our @APaolozziMoore explains:
“The GUARD Act of 2026 closes a real and growing gap in our national security framework by bringing foreign-made robotics communications equipment under the same scrutiny we already apply to other sensitive technologies. Robots that navigate our physical spaces, collect sensor data, and operate autonomously present unique risks when produced or controlled by entities beholden to adversarial governments. Congress should move swiftly to advance this bill. The threats it addresses are not hypothetical, and the window to act is narrowing.”
Chairman @RepMoolenaar's GUARD Act was just passed by the @HouseCommerce Communications and Technology subcommittee!
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
A new @FDD tracker on Chinese military activity around Taiwan mapping daily air and maritime activity from the start of @POTUS second term through today, with an eye toward what the data may tell us ahead of the September Trump-Xi summit.
Tracker link: fdd.org/china-probes-taiwans…
And a Five Things piece laying out the main analytical takeaways: fdd.org/analysis/2026/08/25/…
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
The Blockade and Operation Economic Outcast will crush the failing Iranian economy.
The USA has guided 130 millions barrels out over the past 14 days.
Iran: 0
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U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Holds Press Conference on Economic D-Day xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1MJgNbaZp…
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
.@FDDAction supports Chairman @RepMoolenaar’s bipartisan GUARD Act to protect Americans from robots made in China and other foreign adversary nations. @APaolozziMoore
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
What we need is greater awareness that the rhetoric pushed by Mamdani, El-Sayed, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and others has real-world consequences. The surge in antisemitic hate crimes means thousands of dangerous bigots are being emboldened—and some will escalate to deadly violence. This innocent woman paid the ultimate price. Had her assailant been caught after either of the two times he vandalized a Jewish business, she would be alive today.
From antisemitic crimes to manslaughter nydailynews.com/2026/08/06/f…
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
Senate passes Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill, 86-11. His sister, Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) presided over the vote and read the final tally
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“As the threat of coercion in the Indo-Pacific grows, strengthening Taiwan’s energy resilience is essential to deterring aggression and preserving stability,” says FDD Action’s @APaolozziMoore.
Read our full endorsement here: fddaction.org/endorsements/2…
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What's the mood in Washington with everything happening in the Middle East? @APaolozziMoore joins me on today's @FDD Morning Brief to discuss the view from the Hill, including that congressional vote on Israel aid. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1nGeLLdkg…
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Fresh evidence reveals that Iran is hard at work on the deeply buried nuclear site at Pickaxe Mountain, openly defying what remains of the fragile U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding.
This blatant violation demands a clear American response: Eliminate Iran’s ability to use Pickaxe Mountain, ideally for good.
My latest for @dcexaminer: fdd.org/analysis/2026/07/20/…
washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
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At 6 a.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching a wave of strikes against Iran. The strikes are designed to further degrade military capabilities Iranian forces have used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
We just released a report on June 10 showing significant, new attempted reconstruction activity at Taleghan 2, based on new imagery. Links are in a separate post.
High resolution Airbus satellite imagery obtained by the Institute and @vantortech imagery provided to the Institute by @CNN from June and early July of the Taleghan 2 site, located within the Parchin Military Complex, shows significant activities indicative of an Iranian commitment to repair and reconstruct the site. The Vantor imagery were shared with the Institute by CNN and are part of a CNN video report that aired on June 10.
While imagery from early June indicates damage assessment and clean-up, including the removal of debris and temporary covering of the three impact holes of the buried facility, the newer imagery shows renewed activity at the impact holes for more permanent sealing as well as additional concrete hardening of the site.
This would be the second attempt of reconstruction at the site. The facility at Taleghan 2 was first destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in October 2024, razed, and subsequently rebuilt with visible construction efforts starting in May 2025. The construction site was not attacked in June 2025, and it is not clear whether the facility had reached operational status by the time Israel destroyed it again in March 2026. At that time, Iran was still working on hardening the site further, following the encasement in concrete and coverage by earth. When the IDF attacked the site, it described the site as one “used by the Iranian regime to advance nuclear weapons capabilities,” and “used in recent years to develop advanced explosives.”
These advanced explosives are needed in Iran’s nuclear weapon initiation system called the shock wave generator, an innovative system that allowed for a miniaturized implosion design. The shock wave generator was fully developed in the Amad Plan in the early 2000s with help of at least one former Soviet nuclear weapons compression expert. The high purity high explosives used in the shock wave generator degrade and must be replaced periodically, necessitating ongoing manufacturing.
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
Measure for measure.
The new general license (X1) revoking waivers for Iran to sell oil are the clearest proof yet since the MoU was agreed to that the Trump admin means what it says when it promised this deal was predicated entirely on performance.
Notably different from past negotiations: Iran's violations are now met with tangible consequences, from today's @USTreasury GL X reversal to strikes. ofac.treasury.gov/media/9364…
Alexandria Paolozzi Moore retweeted
🚨NEWS — Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff will brief all House members on Iran MOU during a 4pm call today
This will be the first member-wide briefing in either chamber on Iran since Trump signed the MOU
w/ @Reporter_Mia @riley_rogerson
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