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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-charges-two-men-with-serving-as-agents-of-iran-spying-on-americans-and-jewish-center/2018/08/20/e6d69252-a4bf-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.229b2d074351

Two Iranian-Americans Charged with Spying on Jewish Facilities and Iranian Dissidents in the U.S.

(Washington Post) Spencer S. Hsu - U.S. prosecutors announced charges Monday against Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar, 38, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, who were arrested Aug. 9 and accused of acting as agents of the government of Iran, covertly monitoring a Jewish center in Chicago and American members of an Iranian opposition group in exile. According to an FBI affidavit, Doostdar on July 21, 2017, surveilled and photographed security features at the Chabad House at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

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