Two Men Accused of Spying for Iranian Regime Plead Guilty

Two Men Accused of Spying for Iranian Regime Plead Guilty
The U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington on April 18, 2019. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images
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Two Iranian men have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from surveillance activities on behalf of the Iranian regime, according to the Justice Department (DOJ) on Nov. 6.

Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, and Majid Ghorbani, 60, have pleaded guilty to charges related to spying and collecting identifying information of American citizens and members of a group that held activities denouncing the Iranian regime, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), in the United States. The MEK are made up of individuals who had opposed the 1979 Iranian Revolution and were exiled from Iran.