Ali Reza Parsa, a businessman with dual Iranian and Canadian citizenship, pleaded guilty in federal court in January 2016 to conspiring to ship U.S.-origin electronic components from the United States to Iran, via Canada, without a license required by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).  He was sentenced to three years in prison on May 20, 2016.

The CEO of a New York-based metallurgical company has been arrested on charges of illegally exporting a specialized metallic powder from the United States to Iran, the U.S. Justice Department announced on March 1.  According to the criminal complaint, Erdal Kuyumcu, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Turkish descent, allegedly exported over a thousand pounds of a thermal spray powder to Iran, via transshipment through Turkey, in two shipments in 2013.

Kunlin Hsieh, a Taiwanese national and sales manager for Junbon Enterprises Co. Ltd. in Taiwan, pleaded guilty in June 2015 to conspiring to ship U.S.-origin dual-use electronic parts from the United States to Iran, via Taiwan.  He was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison.

Arthur Shyu, a senior manager of Hosoda Taiwan Co. Ltd., was indicted on April 16, 2015, along with eight other defendants, as part of a procurement network that allegedly supplied at least $24-million worth of U.S.-origin microelectronics to end users in Iran.  The exported items allegedly included electronics with application in surface-to-air and cruise missiles.

On March 20, 2015, AAG Makina, a Turkish equipment manufacturer, settled one charge of aiding an unauthorized export to Iran with the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).  According to the charge, in 2011, Satco Corporation, a Canadian company, ordered $47,334 worth of valve parts and a pressure transmitter, which were shipped from the United States to AAG Makina.  The shipped goods were subject to the Export Administration Regulations.  AAG Makina forwarded the items to two Iranian petrochemical companies without U.S.

On November 26, 2014 British businessman Gary Summerskill, also known as Gareth Summerskill, of Cambridgeshire, England, was fined £68,000 to settle charges that he and his company, Delta Pacific Manufacturing Limited, illegally exported alloy valves to Iran.  Delta Pacific was also ordered to forfeit its profits from the sales, totaling £1,072,000.  The investigation and enforcement action were led by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).