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Tokyo bank freezes Iranian assets

A Japanese bank has halted transactions by the Iranian government in response to a U.S. court ordering a $2.6 billion asset freeze over the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut.

Shut down Iranian bank, Germany’s leaders say

A call by Germany\’s top Jewish leader for the European Iranian Bank of Commerce in Hamburg to be shut down was echoed by the German government. Shortly after Dieter Graumann, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, made his statement to the Handelsblatt online newspaper, the government of Angela Merkel announced that no further payments from India for Iranian crude oil may go through the German banking system.

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