Federal agents arrested Shamim Mafi, a 44-year-old Iranian-born U.S. resident, at LAX on charges she brokered multimillion-dollar weapons sales from Iran to Sudan in violation of U.S. sanctions.

(KTLA) — A Los Angeles woman has been arrested for trafficking arms on behalf of the Iranian government, according to authorities. First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, ...

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Iran is once again accused of playing a deadly role in yet another conflict, this time by supplying attack drones to one of the sides in the predominantly Muslim nation of Sudan’s deadly civil war.