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Iran Caught Smuggling Nuclear Materials Out of U.S.
(Washington Free Beacon-U.S. Department of Justice) Adam Kredo - Behzad Pourghannad, an Iranian national, was arrested in May 2017 in Germany for plotting to smuggle carbon fiber from America to Iran. He was extradited to the U.S. on Monday, and on Tuesday the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against him and two other Iranians who remain at large. "Pourghannad is alleged to have sought to procure for Iran large amounts of carbon fiber - a commodity that can be used in the enrichment of uranium," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. "Iran remains determined to acquire U.S. technology with military applications, and the FBI is just as determined to stop such illegal activity," said Assistant Director John Brown of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. "We take Iran's actions extremely seriously and will work with our partners to defeat them."