California tech CEO arrested after feds say he supplied sanctioned computer equipment to Iran
A California tech CEO, Jamshid Ghomi, has been arrested for allegedly selling U.S.-origin computer equipment to Iran's military and nuclear sectors. He faces up to 20 years in prison for violating U.S. sanctions through his company, Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd. Prosecutors claim he used various methods to smuggle over 275 tons of equipment into Iran while concealing his operations.
- ▪Jamshid Ghomi, 63, was charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
- ▪He allegedly earned millions by selling computer networking equipment to Iran from 2011 to 2015.
- ▪Prosecutors claim he used front companies in the UAE to disguise his role in the smuggling operations.
The Washington Times files mainly under politics. We currently carry 259 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Washington Times |
| Canonical URL | https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/3/california-tech-ceo-arrested-feds-say-supplied-sanctioned-computer/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:19:00 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T19:32:21.107Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T19:32:23.850Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | WsN0qTXvDO2n · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
A California tech CEO is facing 20 years in prison after allegedly earning millions by selling U.S.-origin computer networking equipment to Iran’s military and nuclear establishments, Justice Department officials said. Jamshid Ghomi, 63, was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the primary legal foundation for most U.S. economic sanctions programs. Mr. Ghomi, who holds both American and Iranian citizenship, is the founder and owner of Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd., a Tehran-based computer networking company. For more than a decade, according to prosecutors, he used the company to procure U.S.-origin networking equipment for customers in Iran in violation of ongoing U.S. sanctions, federal prosecutors said.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Washington Times.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from The Washington Times
