This Is How Iran Gets U.S. Weapons Technology

Clark Settles is the Unit Chief for Counter Proliferation Investigations for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

How U.S. Weapons Technology Is Finding Its Way To Iran -- McClatchy News

WASHINGTON — The shadow war between the U.S. and Iran was briefly visible this week at an extradition hearing in a Paris courtroom, where an Iranian engineer was answering U.S. charges that he'd illegally shipped U.S. technology to Iran.

French authorities detained Majid Kakavand, 37, at the request of the U.S., as he stepped off a plane last year. On Wednesday he got a big boost when a French state prosecutor unexpectedly argued that the technology he allegedly shipped through his global procurement network had no military application.

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My Comment: I do not envy the agents who must find and uncover these secret networks. They clearly have their work cut out for them.