U.S. Citizen Charged With Conspiring to Provide U.S. Goods and Tech to Iranian Government

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JANUARY 20, 2022: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi addresses a plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Russian State Duma/TASS (Photo by Russian State DumaTASS via Getty Images)

A dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Kambiz Attar Kashani, 44, was arrested in Chicago on criminal charges of conspiring to illegally export goods and technology to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI).
Kashani and his co-conspirators repeatedly lied to numerous U.S. companies and orchestrated an elaborate scheme, using two separate United Arab Emirate front companies, to evade U.S. export laws and procure U.S. electronic equipment and technology for the CBI.