A man from UK pleaded guilty in a Washington court to charges related to illegal exports of sensitive military technologies to Iran in violation of US sanctions, the Justice Department announced.
Saber Fakih, 46, conspired with others in 2017 and 2018 to ship to Iran a high-powered, microwave-based directed-energy weapon system and technology that can be used to take control of an aerial drone, the department said in a statement on Thursday.
Meanwhile, a federal indictment was unsealed charging four others in the alleged conspiracy, the government said.
According to his plea agreement, Fakih said he conspired with Alireza Taghavi, 46, of Iran; Bader Fakih, 41, of Canada; and Altaf Faquih, 70, of the United Arab Emirates, the department said.
In an unsealed indictment, Iranian national Jalal Rohollahnejad was charged with “smuggling, wire fraud and related offenses arising from the same scheme,” the US said.
Rohollahnejad and another man reportedly worked as representatives of Rayan Roshd Asfzar, a technology company that has been linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the department said.
