Mechanical and NDT Labs Director at Iran's Razi Metallurgical Research Center; indicted in U.S. federal court in Texas in October 2006 for conspiracy to willfully and illegally export U.S. origin commodities without obtaining the required U.S. government authorization; allegedly enlisted in July 2006 the aid of Seyed Abolghassem Rohani Eftekhari, also known as Farshid Rohani (a management executive at Canada's Sutcast Foundry Technologies, Inc.), to purchase a Magnetostrictive Sensor from the Southwest Research Institute in the United States, after the Institute refused to supply the device directly to Nasiri; allegedly transferred $72,000 from Iran to Rohani in Canada, for Rohani to wire the funds to the Institute for the purchase; Rohani was also indicted, and was sentenced on July 31, 2007 to twelve months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty on December 5, 2006.