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Iranian Pleads Guilty in US of Bid to Export Technology Illegally

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   An Iranian woman has pleaded guilty in the United States of trying to
   illegally export technology to her home country.
   NegarGhodskani, 40, entered her guilty plea Friday infederal court in
   the northern state of Minnesota.
   According to court documents,Ghodskaniworked for a Tehran
   company,FanaMoj, from 2008 to 2011 and established with a co-defendant
   another company in Malaysia that operated as a front forFanaMoj.
   As part of the conspiracy,Ghodskanifalsely represented herself as an
   employee of the Malaysian company in order to acquire export-controlled
   technology from the United States. In her guilty plea,Ghodskanisaid she
   concealed the ultimate destination for the technology.
   The U.S. Department of Justice saidFanaMojwas designated by the U.S.
   Treasury Department in 2017 as a company "providing financial,
   material, technological or other support for, or goods or services in
   support of," Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
   Ghodskaniwas arrested in Australia in 2017 and had fought her
   extradition for several years.
   A co-defendant in the case, Alireza Jalali, pleaded guilty in November
   2017 and was sentenced in March 2018.

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