A dual U.S.-Iranian man was arrested at Newark International Airport in New Jersey and charged with attempting to give blueprints for the F-35 fighter jet to Iran.
Prosecutors said Mozaffar Khazaee attempted to ship 'numerous boxes of documents consisting of sensitive technical manuals, specification sheets, and other proprietary material for the F-35' to the Iranian city of Hamadan in November.
According to the Washington Times, Khazaee, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who was naturalized in the U.S. 1991, was charged in Connecticut with 'transporting, transmitting and transferring in interstate or foreign commerce goods obtained by theft, conversion, or fraud.'
If convicted, he faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
The affidavit said the proprietary material was from an unnamed company that Khazaee had last worked in August, according to Defense News.
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