Iranian-American pleads guilty to acting as Tehran's spy, providing sensitive US materials to Iran

Jerusalem Post - 17/04
Abouzar Rahmati worked as an FAA contractor and secretly fed Iran sensitive files on US aviation and solar tech to Tehran. He now faces up to 15 years behind bars.

Abouzar Rahmati, a 42-year-old naturalized US citizen working as a Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) contractor, pled guilty to "conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Iranian government in the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General," the US Justice Department confirmed on Wednesday.

Court documents showed that Rahmati worked with Iranian government officials and intelligence operatives from at least December 2017 until June 2024.

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