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Iran Slams U.S. Jailing of Engineer for Documents Smuggling

Connecticut Public Radio | By The Associated Press
Published October 26, 2015 at 10:46 AM EDT
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Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran.

The Iranian government has criticized the decision by a U.S. court to sentence an engineer with dual citizenship to more than eight years in prison for trying to send sensitive military documents to Iran. 

Iran's official IRNA news agency on Sunday quoted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham as saying "the sentence for Mozaffar Khazaee is totally unfair."

Khazaee was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for trying to send hundreds of sensitive U.S. military documents to Iran as he tried to get teaching jobs at state-run universities there.

Prosecutors said Khazaee stole and shared with contacts in Iran materials related to the Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the F-22 Raptor and other U.S. military jet engine programs.
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