{"id":268068,"date":"2026-06-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/iranian-national-lied-about-using-china-to-smuggle-military-technology-doj\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:10:25","slug":"iranian-national-lied-about-using-china-to-smuggle-military-technology-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/iranian-national-lied-about-using-china-to-smuggle-military-technology-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian National Lied About Using China to Smuggle Military Technology: DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/iranian-citizen-pleads-guilty-to-violating-sanctions-by-smuggling-military-technology\">Iranian National Lied About Using China to Smuggle Military Technology: DOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/iranian-citizen-pleads-guilty-to-violating-sanctions-by-smuggling-military-technology\">https:\/\/www.military.com\/iranian-citizen-pleads-guilty-to-violating-sanctions-by-smuggling-military-technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.military.com\">www.military.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Iranian man has pleaded guilty to multiple federal felony counts stemming from what federal prosecutors described as a scheme to violate trade sanctions in place by the United States against his home country. China played a big role in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The legal case against the 44-year-old Iranian national, Reza Dindar, goes back more than 10 years, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). He was originally indicted by a grand jury in August 2014. It wasn&#8217;t until July 2025 when Dindar was arrested in Panama at the United States&#8217; request, leading to extradition in April 2026. All of that led to him pleading guilty June 5 to two counts of export to an embargoed country and two counts of smuggling goods from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Ricardo Martinez scheduled sentencing for Aug. 28, 2026. Dindar faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for being exported to an embargoed country, while charges for smuggling goods from the U.S are punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>The case was prosecuted by assistant United States Attorney Todd Greenberg, while the DOJ&#8217;s Office of International Affairs worked with Panama&#8217;s government to secure the arrest and extradition. &#8220;Significant assistance&#8221; was also provided by the Department of State\u2019s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).<\/p>\n<p>U.S. agencies involved in the investigation include the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security &#8211; Office of Export Enforcement, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a-chinese-office-at-the-center-of-the-charges\">\n                        <strong>A Chinese Office at the Center of the Charges<\/strong><br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>Authorities said June 5 that Dindar&#8217;s smuggling activity violates U.S.-imposed sanctions against Iran based on presidential executive orders signed in March 1995 and later reimposed in 2001. Those orders prohibit the unauthorized exportation, re-exportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States of any goods, technology, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/iranian-citizen-pleads-guilty-to-violating-sanctions-by-smuggling-military-technology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian National Lied About Using China to Smuggle Military Technology: DOJ https:\/\/www.military.com\/iranian-citizen-pleads-guilty-to-violating-sanctions-by-smuggling-military-technology Publish Date: 2026-06-09&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.mltimages.com\/wordpresshttps:\/\/static0.mltimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ap26124591539241-1.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-268068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268070,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268068\/revisions\/268070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}