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, ...

The company Shamim Mafi operated, through which weapons and ammunition were trafficked, received over $7 million in payments in 2025.

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.