AMERICA'S ATTACK ON IRAN WILL AGAIN FOCUS ITS ATTENTION ON ALL THE IRANIANS WHO ACQUIRED CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORTS, AND ARE USING THEM IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING

In the aftermath of yesterday's American attack upon Iran's illegal nuclear weapon development sites, you can expect an increased focus, on the part of the United States, upon Iran as a National Security threat. This includes Iran's abuse of the global financial structure to evade the international sanctions in place against it for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

One of the techniques that Iran uses successfully is the artful employment of Citizenship by Investment (CBi/CIP) passports to enter and gain access to the financial centers of the United States. It also uses the CBI passports in the developing world, with their low profile status, to disguise its operations, sell sanctioned oil, and support terrorist organizations.

It is therefore reasonable to expect that we will see increased American law enforcement and intelligence service activity to identify and suppress Iran's moves abroad. This will translate into American pressure upon the five Eastern Caribbean states with CBI programs to disclose the identities of the individuals whom they have sold their passports to, especially to Middle Eastern buyer who could be Iranians, or working on their their behalf. Given that "passport secrecy" is a major selling point that they offer dodgy CBI clients, the EC states aren't going to cooperate willingly, but the fear and loathing which their constituents are now exhibiting, at the threat of being blocked from entering the US, could mean that they will be forced to make disclosures of their valuable passport sales identities. Will they buckle under new US pressure, or be excluded from painful trade and visa benefits?