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Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, Material Support to Terrorist Organization, Massachusetts 2024
BOSTON – Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, 42, a dual U.S.-Iranian national of Natick, Mass., has been charged in federal court in Boston with conspiring to export sophisticated electronic components from the United States to Iran in violation of U.S. export control and sanctions laws.
Sadeghi was arrested today and made his initial appearance in the District of Massachusetts. He was held pending a detention hearing scheduled for Dec. 27, 2024.
According to court documents, Sadeghi is currently employed by a Massachusetts-based microelectronics manufacturer (U.S. Company 1) and was one of the founders of a Massachusetts-based technology company (U.S. Company 2) that specializes in wearable sensors that provide kinetic monitoring for fitness applications.
As alleged in court documents, Sadeghi and others conspired to evade U.S. export control and sanctions laws by procuring U.S. origin goods, services, and technology from, among others, U.S. Company 1 and causing those goods, services, and technology to be exported or otherwise supplied to Iran and, in particular, Abedini’s Iranian company, SDRA.
The defendant faces charges of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), and the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), as well as two counts of violating U.S. export control and sanctions laws.
Sadeghi is also charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), IRGC, that resulted in the deaths of three U.S. servicemembers who were killed by a one-way attack Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), also known as a drone, on a military base in Jordan.
“Today, the Justice Department has charged, and our foreign partners haven taken into custody, Mohammad Abedini, who we allege supplied sensitive technology used by the Iranian military to kill three American servicemembers in Jordan earlier this year,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.
Key Facts
- State: Massachusetts
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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