Irans Foreign Ministry has condemned as completely unjusta sentence issued against an Iranian national in the United States. Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham on Sunday condemned the eight-year-and-one-month prison sentence issued on Friday by the US District of Connecticut against Mozaffar Khazaee, an Iranian-American, on the accusation that ...

[caption id="attachment_153046" align="alignright" width="175"] Archive: A pair of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fly over northern Iraq, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. Photo by AP[/caption] HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A former defense contractor accused of sending sensitive information about U.S. military jet programs to his native Iran in an effort ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A former defense contractor charged with trying to ship to Iran stolen proprietary information about the Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program and military jet engines pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. Mozaffar Khazawee entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport to charges of transporting property stolen from ...

Tehran has slammed the apprehension of Iranian nationals in the US as part of a propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic. All the hype and traps against Iranian citizens abroad are merely propaganda and media speculation and no offense has been committed by Iranian citizens, Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Iranian ...

(Reuters) - A former engineer for defense contractors has been indicted on charges that he tried to sendIransecret details on the U.S. Air Force's F-35 joint strike fighter program, the office of the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut said on Tuesday. The accused man, Mozaffar Khazaee, a dual U.S. and Iranian citizen, was arrested on January 9 at Newark ...

US authorities have arrested an Iranian-American engineer accused of attempting to ship stolen documentation on a high-tech military plane to Iran. Federal prosecutors have charged Mozaffar Khazaee, 59, with trying to smuggle thousands of pages of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter documents. Mr Khazaee stole the documents from defence contractors that ...

A former engineer for defense contractors was charged with trying to ship military documents toIran, including materials related to the U.S. Air Forces F35 Joint Strike Fighter program and jet engines. Mozaffar Khazaee, 59, was arrested yesterday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey as he attempted to fly to Tehran, the U.S. Attorneys ...