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Mahin Mojtahedzadeh, a 74-year-old Iranian national, faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to procuring turbine parts from two New York-based companies and exporting them to Iran. From 2013 to 2017, Mojtahedzadeh arranged for companies in Canada and Germany to purchase more than $3 million of gas turbine parts from the United States and send them to Iran. U.S. officials would not identify the supplier companies, but authorities raided the offices of New York-based Turbine Services Ltd. in June. Mojtahedzadeh’s co-conspirators, German nationals Olaf Tepper and Mojtaba Biria, both employees of Energy Republic GmbH, previously pled guilty to charges of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
