Monday, January 13, 2014

Iranian-American Arrested for Alleged Attempted Transfer of F-35 Data to Iran

naturalized U.S. citizen of Iranian origin was arrested on charges of attempting to ship F-35 technical data to Iran. Mozaffar Khazaee was detained on January 9 at Newark International Airport on his way to Tehran, The Navy Times reported today.

Khazaee was charged with “transporting, transmitting and transferring in interstate or foreign commerce goods obtained by theft, conversion, or fraud.” The crime carries a maximum 10 years imprisonment.

Khazaee, an employee of Pratt and Whitney, was allegedly going to ship “numerous boxes of documents consisting of sensitive technical manuals, specification sheets, and other proprietary material for the F-35.” (The Navy Times, 13 January)

F-35 is the fifth-generation fighter, which is expected to be the backbone of American air superiority over the next several decades.


File photo: An F-35B test aircraft flies in short takeoff/vertical-landing mode in November. (Lockheed Martin/Navy Times)

7 comments:

reader said...

I have full sympathy for this unfortunate fellow Iranian who may have been the victim of a dirty sting operation.

Anonymous said...

And Mark supposed to be an military expert of this blog in the past.

Anonymous said...

And what the hell would the Iranians do with the information, beside transferring it to the Russians and the Chinese?

abu bakar said...

again, false flag operation- how so idiot agent exposes

Anonymous said...

Why would the Americans want to do something like that?

Anonymous said...

There is no reason for creating "false-flag" operation. Nobody benefits from it.

Anonymous said...

It would not be the first false flag operation. The American regime already manufactured another case against an Iranian American person, here: http://www.uskowioniran.com/2012/10/iranian-american-pleads-guilty-to.html