December 19, 2008
Iranian Woman Convicted of Attempting to Sell Night Vision to Iran
FORT LAUDERDALE - After representing herself at trial, an Iranian woman was convicted Thursday of trying to export U.S.-made night-vision goggles to Iran.Well she's more brave than her POS husband Mahmoud Seif who rather than face justice himself, allowed his wife to do it whilst he hides in Iran.Sharhazad Mir Gholikhan, 31, vowed to appeal the verdict returned by a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale Is your Fort Lauderdale restaurant clean? - Click Here. after roughly 12 hours of deliberation: guilty of three export violations and not guilty of three related conspiracy charges.
Federal prosecutors said Gholikhan and her former husband, Mahmoud Seif, tried to illegally procure 3,500 sets of the military-grade goggles for Iran.
Authorities arrested the couple after a 2004 meeting in Vienna, Austria, where they had obtained a sample device from a U.S. government informant posing as an arms broker.
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