{"id":424056,"date":"2024-08-11T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=424056"},"modified":"2024-08-11T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T03:56:54","slug":"pakistani-charged-in-us-with-backing-iran-arms-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pakistani-charged-in-us-with-backing-iran-arms-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani charged in US with backing Iran arms scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted two Iranians and a Pakistani national for allegedly providing material support to Tehran\u2019s weapons programme. A superseding indictment, filed on Thursday, charged two Iranian brothers \u2014 Shahab Mir\u2019kazei and Yunus Mir\u2019kazei \u2014 along with Pahlawan for \u201cconspiring to provide and providing material support to Iran\u2019s weapons of mass destruction programme\u201d. The development comes on the heels of the DOJ charging another Pakistani national, Asif Raza Merchant, who also allegedly had ties with Iran, in connection with a plot to assassinate a US politician and other officials on American soil. The issue was raised at Friday\u2019s Foreign Office press briefing in Islamabad, where Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch was asked about consular access to these individuals. Muhammad Pahlawan was among several captured by US forces during action off Somali coast \u201cI had informed sometime back that we were given consular access to those Pakistanis,\u201d she said in response to a question about the Pahlawan indictment. Thursday\u2019s indictment also accused the three men of \u201cconspiring to commit violence against maritime navigation and maritime transport involving weapons of mass destruction resulting in death.\u201d Pahlawan is currently in US custody awaiting trial, while Shahab and Yunus remain at large. 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A superseding indictment, filed on Thursday, charged two Iranian brothers \u2014 Shahab Mir\u2019kazei and Yunus Mir\u2019kazei \u2014 along with Pahlawan for \u201cconspiring to provide and providing material support to Iran\u2019s weapons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-424056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistani charged in US with backing Iran arms scheme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pakistani-charged-in-us-with-backing-iran-arms-scheme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistani charged in US with backing Iran arms scheme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted two Iranians and a Pakistani national for allegedly providing material support to Tehran\u2019s weapons programme. 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