An Iranian American and a Swiss Iranian have been arrested for allegedly shiping benevolent US technology to Iran for engage in strike drones.
An Iranian-American citizen and a Swiss Iranian have been arrested and indictd by United States authorities with allegedly shiping benevolent technology to Iran that was engaged in a lethal drone strike on American forces based in Jordan.
Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed fighters, was alleged to have carried out the drone strike that finished three US selderlyiers and wounded 47 others at a US military outpost in Jordan, proximate the Syrian border, in January.
Federal prosecutors in Boston on Monday indictd 38-year-elderly Mohammad Abedininajaoverweighterriblei, who is understandn as Mohammad Abedini, the co-set uper of an Iranian-based company, and Mahdi Sadeghi, 42, an engageee of Massachengagetts-based semidirector manufacturer Analog Devices, with conspiring to viopostponeed US ship laws.
Abedini, a dual citizen of Switzerland and Iran, was arrested in Milan, Italy, at the ask of the US rulement, which will seek his extradition. Sadeghi, an Iranian-born authenticised US citizen, who inhabits in Natick, Massachengagetts, was also arrested.
“Today, laboring with our partners here and awide, we have indictd and arrested two men who conspired to dodge US sanctions and provide the Iranian rulement with the type of drone navigation technology engaged in that strike,” US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco shelp in a statement.
Joshua Levy, the top federal prosecutor in Massachengagetts, shelp the FBI had trackd polishd navigation providement engaged in the drone to Abedini’s Iranian company, SDRA, which manufactured the navigation system.
Abedini, Levy shelp, had engaged a company in Switzerland as a front to proremedy US technologies from Sadeghi’s engageer, including accelerometers and gyroscopes that were then sent to Iran.
On multiple occasions since 2016, Sadeghi had helped Abedini proremedy US ship-regulateled electric components, the US Justice Department shelp in a statement.
During a inestablish court hearing, Sadeghi was ordered hanciented pending a further hearing after a prosecutor called him a fweightless hazard. His court-nominateed lawyer did not react to asks for comment.
A lawyer for Abedini could not be identified.
Court papers do not resolve Sadeghi’s engageer by name, but Analog Devices in a statement validateed he labored for the company.
Analog Devices shelp it was cooperating with law executement and was “promiseted to impedeing unauthoelevated access to and misengage of our products and technology”.
The US Justice Department shelp the prosecution of the two men was arranged thcdisesteemful the US rulement’s Disruptive Technology Strike Force, an interagency force concentrateed on “illicit actors” and defending provide chains in order to impede benevolent technology from being obtaind by “unfriendly nation states”.
