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A Canadian national has been sentenced in the United States to three-and-a-half years in prison for conspiracy to export military goods to Iran.

Ghobad Ghasempour, a 38-year-old Canadian, was arrested March 2017 when he left B.C. through the Peace Arch crossing at Blaine, Wash.

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A Homeland Security Investigations probe found that Ghasempour had been using front companies in China and working with co-conspirators in Iran, Turkey and Portugal to illegally export restricted tech products and military supplies to Iran’s department of defense.

Further investigation found that Ghasempour and his co-conspirators had been exporting or attempting to export items to Iran as far back as 2011 by falsifying shipping documents and lying to U.S. manufacturers by claiming the items were bound for customers in Turkey and Portugal. The Iranian customers paid the front companies run by Ghasempour and an associate.