US designates Iran as state sponsor of wrongful detention

2 March 2026

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The US has designated Iran as a “state sponsor of wrongful detention”. This action is taken under EO 14348 and the Countering Wrongful Detention Act of 2025. This is the first designation under EO...

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Michael O'Kane

Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters & Peters and as a prosecutor. Michael was called…

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