U.S. citizen and former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contractor Abouzar Rahmati pleaded guilty to conspiring and acting as an Iranian government agent in the United States. From 2017 to 2024, Rahmati allegedly worked with Iranian intelligence officers to provide information about the U.S. aviation and solar energy industries to Iran. He allegedly sought employment with an FAA contractor in order to further the scheme and succeeded in transferring sensitive, non-public FAA documents to Iran in 2022. Rahmati could receive a maximum sentence of fifteen years in prison.