On September 24, the American-Iranian Council held a publicly announced and off-the-record breakfast roundtable in Washington, D.C. on the Iran sanctions.  The event, hosted by the prominent law firm, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, featured Ms. Andrea Gacki, the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Department of Treasury, as the main speaker. To date, Ms. Gacki is the highest-ranking OFAC official in the Obama Administration to appear at a publicly announced and open event. The session offered an opportunity to produce substantive knowledge about one of the most topical issues in international relations.