Two males, together with a twin Iranian American citizen, have been arrested on expenses that they exported delicate expertise to Iran that was utilized in a drone assault in Jordan that killed three American troops early this yr and injured dozens of different service members, the Justice Division stated Monday.
The prison case in federal courtroom in Massachusetts expenses the lads, recognized as Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi and Mohammad Abedininajafabadi, with export management violations.
U.S. officers blamed the January assault on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias that features Kataib Hezbollah.
Three Georgia troopers — Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Sgt. Breonna Moffett of Savannah and Sgt. Kennedy Sanders of Waycross — had been killed within the Jan. 28 drone assault on a U.S. outpost in northeastern Jordan referred to as Tower 22.
Within the assault, the one-way assault drone could have been mistaken for a U.S. drone that was anticipated to return again to the logistics base about the identical time and was not shot down.
As a substitute, it crashed into residing quarters, killing the three troopers and injuring greater than 40.
Tower 22 held about 350 U.S. army personnel on the time. It’s strategically positioned between Jordan and Syria, solely 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Iraqi border, and within the months simply after Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel, and Israel’s blistering response in Gaza, Iranian-backed militias intensified their assaults on U.S. army areas within the area.
Following the assault, the U.S. launched an enormous counterstrike towards 85 websites in Iraq and Syria utilized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Iranian-backed militia and bolstered Tower 22’s defenses.
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