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Iranian-American Tech CEO Arrested for Secretly Arming Iran's Military With U.S. Tech

The Department of Justice just arrested a 63-year-old dual U.S.-Iranian citizen named Jamshid Ghomi who was allegedly running a cozy little side hustle from his $35 million Newport Beach mansion — funneling American networking equipment straight to Iran's nuclear and military establishment. For over a decade. While living in Newport Coast, California, one of the most expensive zip codes in the country.

But don't worry, folks. He was only reporting about $20,000 a year to the IRS. Nothing suspicious there.

Ghomi is the founder, owner, and CEO of Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd., a Tehran-based tech company that the DOJ says was pulling in roughly $10 million annually in sales of U.S.-origin networking equipment — equipment that ended up in the hands of Iran's military, per the indictment. Ten million a year in revenue. Twenty thousand reported to the taxman. You don't need to be a forensic accountant to spot the problem.

He was arrested on Wednesday and appeared in federal court in Santa Ana, California, facing conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. That's a fancy way of saying he was doing business with one of the world's largest state sponsors of terrorism in direct violation of sanctions enforced by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli didn't mince words. "Our nation's laws prohibiting doing business with one of the world's largest state sponsors of terrorism must be enforced and obeyed," Essayli said. "We will hold him accountable by seeking an appropriate prison sentence and by seizing his assets, including his $35 million Newport Beach mansion."

Music to my ears.

Let's just sit with this for a second. This man enjoyed every benefit America has to offer — the freedom, the wealth, the gorgeous coastal real estate — while allegedly working to strengthen the military capabilities of a regime that chants "Death to America" before breakfast. He wasn't smuggling rugs or pistachios. He was moving U.S. networking equipment to Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

And he did it for over a decade. That means this operation was humming along through the Obama years, when the Iran Deal crowd was busy sending pallets of cash to Tehran. It sailed right through Biden's open-border, open-everything approach to national security. Only now is someone actually bringing the hammer down.

Ghomi faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted. Twenty years. That Newport Coast lifestyle is about to get a serious downgrade.

The DOJ under President Trump has made it clear that sanctions enforcement isn't a suggestion. It's not a diplomatic talking point you trot out at the U.N. and then ignore. You arm our enemies from American soil, you go to prison and lose the mansion. Simple as that.

As reported by AMAC Newsline, this case is a reminder that the threats to national security don't always come from overseas. Sometimes they're living in a $35 million house in Orange County, filing fraudulent tax returns and shipping American technology to the mullahs.

Twenty years and a seized mansion. We call that a good start.

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