Iranian national Reza Dindar, also known as Renda Dindar, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two counts of export to an embargoed country and two counts of smuggling goods from the United States in connection with a scheme to procure U.S.-origin parts for military sonar systems and ship them to Iran through China. Between 2010 and 2014, Dindar managed New Port Sourcing Solutions in Xi’an, China, which procured items in the United States for companies in Iran and falsely claimed that the goods were destined for China, according to the plea agreement. In 2011 and 2012, Dindar and his co-conspirators purchased parts for three military sonar systems from a business in the Western District of Washington and falsely claimed the systems would be used by a company in China, when they in fact planned to ship them to Iran. Dindar was indicted in August 2014, arrested in Panama in July 2025 at the request of the United States, and extradited to the United States in April 2026.