Federal officials arrested Jeffrey Chance Nader, a U.S.-Iranian national, in California following his indictment for unlawfully exporting U.S.-manufactured aircraft components to Iran, including parts used in military aircraft like the F-4 fighter jet. Beginning in 2023, Nader and his associates allegedly coordinated the purchase and shipment of aircraft parts through his California-based business, Pro Aero Capital, intending to send them to Iran via the United Arab Emirates. The Department of Commerce seized the components before they were shipped.

Iran shipped small amounts of crude oil to new destinations, including Bangladesh and Oman, in June and July 2024. Despite U.S. sanctions on its crude oil exports, Tehran's oil output in 2024 has exceeded 3.2 million barrels per day, a five-year high, while exports have stabilized around 1.5 million barrels per day.

A U.S. grand jury indicted two Iranian brothers, Shahab Mir'Kazei and Yunus Mir’kazei, as well as Pakistan national Muhammad Pahlawan for allegedly smuggling Iranian arms to the Houthis aboard a dhow in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Mir'kazei brothers, who work for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, had hired Pahlawan to smuggle the weapons. U.S. Navy forces interdicted the dhow in January and discovered a cache of advanced Iranian-made conventional weapons.

Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu travelled to Iran to meet with president Masoud Pezeshkian and military commander Brig. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri. Two anonymous Iranian officials said that Russia had recently begun delivering advanced radars and air-defense equipment to Iran as part of a deepening military partnership between the two countries.