{"id":95119,"date":"2024-12-17T16:02:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=95119"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:02:05","slug":"us-detains-two-iranians-linked-to-deadly-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/95119\/","title":{"rendered":"US detains two Iranians linked to deadly drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan(National Times)- NEW YORK: US officials announced on Monday the arrest of two Iranian nationals over alleged export violations tied to a drone strike that killed three American soldiers.\u00a0 More than 40 other service members were injured in a drone attack at a Jordanian military base near the Syrian border in January, the Pentagon said at the time of the incident. The two men, one an Iranian and the other a naturalised American-Iranian, allegedly colluded to ship navigational components to Iran which were used in the drone that executed the strike. &#8220;We often cite hypothetical risk when we talk about the dangers of American technologies getting into dangerous hands,&#8221; said Joshua Levy, the United States Attorney for Massachusetts. &#8220;Unfortunately, in this situation, we are not speculating, as alleged in this criminal complaint, the grave potential damage from the leak of American technology overseas came to fruition approximately 11 months ago.&#8221; Mohammad Abedininajafabadi was arrested by the FBI in Italy and US authorities are seeking his extradition after he allegedly procured sophisticated US-made navigation technology, circumventing export laws. Iranian-American Mahdi Sadeghi works for a US company making precision navigational aides and allegedly colluded with Abedininajafabadi to use a shell company in Switzerland to ship restricted items from his firm to Iran. He was arrested in Massachusetts. &#8220;We believe both men conspired illegally to export sensitive technology from a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Massachusetts to Iran using a front company in Switzerland owned by Abedini,&#8221; said FBI Special Agent in Charge Jodi Cohen using a shortened name for Abedininajafabadi. &#8220;Abedini is also the owner of an Iranian based company that makes navigation systems for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated foreign terrorist organisation. &#8220;The FBI analyzed the drone that struck (in Jordan) killing three American soldiers, and found the navigation system used in this deadly attack was allegedly manufactured by Abedini\u2019s company.&#8221; Approximately 350 US Army and Air Force personnel were deployed to the base when the attack happened, the Pentagon said in a statement at the time. &#8220;The three soldiers were killed when a one-way uncrewed aerial system impacted their container housing units,&#8221; it added, apparently describing exploding drones.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- NEW YORK: US officials announced on Monday the arrest of two Iranian nationals over alleged export violations tied to a drone strike that killed three American soldiers.\u00a0 More than 40 other service members were injured in a drone attack at a Jordanian military base near the Syrian border in January, the Pentagon said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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