Mozaffar Khazaee , a former Manchester , Connecticut occupier and defense contractile organ has been nab by federal authority on charges that he attempted to smuggle classified proficient datum on a variety show of military projects — including the unexampled F-35 Lightning II — out of the body politic and into Iran .
Khazaee is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran and holds citizenship in both country . He had sour for at least three dissimilar defense contractile organ over the past few years , include as recently as August of last year , accord to Customs and Border confidence . tender information from all three of these company were found in the 44 boxes of materials he recently send from Connecticut to a California declare party . They were then to be loaded onto an Iran - bound ship in November , had a Customs and Border Protection team not examined the shipment and discovered its content .
Khazaee himself was arrest last Thursday on a connecting flight in Newark from Indianapolis to , you guessed it , Tehran . [ champion and Stripes ]
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