<p style="font-weight: 400;">A dual U.S.-Iranian national living in one of California&#8217;s most exclusive zip codes has been <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-iran-tech-company-arrested-federal-charge-supplying-us-equipment-irans-nuclear-and">arrested</a> for secretly supplying American technology to Iran&#8217;s nuclear and military establishments.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">This is the latest in a growing series of federal cases exposing the Islamic Republic&#8217;s aggressive efforts to exploit U.S. systems, steal American technology, and intimidate dissidents on American soil.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Jamshid Ghomi, 63, of Newport Coast, California, was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran. As CEO of Tehran-based tech firm Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. (FPR), Ghomi spent more than a decade obtaining sophisticated American-made networking, security, and encryption equipment for Iranian customers, including the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the agency directly responsible for Iran&#8217;s centrifuge and uranium-enrichment programs, and Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">To hide what he was doing, Ghomi routed shipments through front companies in the UAE, instructed co-conspirators to scrub his name from shipping paperwork, hid U.S. equipment inside larger shipments, and referred to Iran internally as the &#8220;Motherland.&#8221; He smuggled more than 250 metric tons of networking equipment into Iran between 2014 and 2018 alone. FPR&#8217;s annual sales exceeded $10 million.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The money laundering was just as brazen. Ghomi moved more than $15 million from Iran into his U.S. bank accounts, falsely reporting the funds to the IRS as a foreign inheritance. During the same period, he claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit — a benefit for low-income workers — in seven different tax years, while reporting almost no income. He used the illicit proceeds to build a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/06/03/tech-ceo-with-35-million-california-mansion-charged-with-secretly-aiding-irans-nuclear-program/">$35 million Newport Coast mansion</a> that federal prosecutors intend to seize.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Ghomi case is far from an isolated incident. The DOJ has been methodically dismantling Iran&#8217;s American networks across multiple fronts.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In December 2023, federal prosecutors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-indicts-two-men-who-allegedly-sold-microelectronics-to-irgc-irans-terror-organization?utm_source=chatgpt.com">charged</a> Iranian national Hossein Hatefi Ardakani and a Chinese co-defendant with allegedly procuring U.S. microelectronics for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps&#8217; (IRGC) drone program. Those were the same one-way attack UAVs later found deployed in Ukraine. The components included military-grade transistors and microwave amplifiers routed through a web of front companies.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In March 2026, the DOJ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-seizes-iranian-domains-behind-cyberattacks-death-threats?utm_source=chatgpt.com">seized</a> four allegedly Iranian government-linked web domains used to dox dissidents, threaten journalists, leak stolen data, and incite violence against American citizens and Israeli officials. One email uncovered by investigators offered a $250,000 bounty for the beheading of two targets, claiming Iranian operatives had partnered with a Mexican cartel to carry out the killings on U.S. soil.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Taken together, the cases paint a picture of a regime with deep, active, and multifaceted infiltration of American institutions — using U.S. technology, U.S. financial systems, U.S. borders, and U.S.-based operatives to advance its nuclear ambitions and terrorize its enemies.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Ghomi faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.</p>

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