Bloomberg - Federal prosecutors won a courtroom victory in their nine-year effort to seize a midtown Manhattan office tower owned by an Iranian charity. A jury on Wednesday found that the charity, the Alavi Foundation, was controlled by the Iranian government. It also agreed with prosecutors that the charitys management of the Fifth Avenue office ...

Owned by the Alavi Foundation, this building in New Yorks fifth avenue has hit the headlines over the past several years. The accusation; money laundering by transferring cash to Iran. But what is the Alavi Foundation itself? The mission started even before Irans Islamic revolution under the name of the Pahlavi foundation to promote the Persian culture ...