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Iranian Muslim based in Canada gets 3 1/2 years prison for illegally exporting military tech to Iran

Aug 23, 2018 12:32 pm By Robert Spencer

Ghobad Ghasempour is a “Canadian,” according to the Vancouver Sun, and he is indeed a Canadian national, but obviously, by his actions since 2011, his primary allegiance is to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

“Canadian man sentenced to 42 months in prison for illegally exporting military tech to Iran,” by Stephanie Ip, Vancouver Sun, August 22, 2018 (thanks to Amil Imani):

A Canadian national has been sentenced in the United States to three-and-a-half years in prison for conspiracy to export military goods to Iran.

Ghobad Ghasempour, a 38-year-old Canadian, was arrested March 2017 when he left B.C. through the Peace Arch crossing at Blaine, Wash.

A Homeland Security Investigations probe found that Ghasempour had been using front companies in China and working with co-conspirators in Iran, Turkey and Portugal to illegally export restricted tech products and military supplies to Iran’s department of defense.

Further investigation found that Ghasempour and his co-conspirators had been exporting or attempting to export items to Iran as far back as 2011 by falsifying shipping documents and lying to U.S. manufacturers by claiming the items were bound for customers in Turkey and Portugal. The Iranian customers paid the front companies run by Ghasempour and an associate….

During the sentencing a judge noted that Ghasempour was motivated by greed and money and that his exports were intended for “the Department of Defense for Iran – the very group that would be the most harmful to the United States.”

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  1. Andy says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 12:36 pm

    Oh, Yes. A Canadian.

    This CANADIAN is a traitorous one isn’t he!

    • Andy says

      Aug 23, 2018 at 12:39 pm

      I AM CANADIAN!

      • Andy says

        Aug 23, 2018 at 12:55 pm

        You know its an issue when Canadian born citizens are becoming the minority in the country

        Justine Trudeau is a tough guy when he is pushing around little old ladies…put him in a room with President Trump and he pisses himself, Trudeau Jr. is a traitor to Canada like his dad was.

        Poll: Canadian support for immigration hits record low

        • Andy says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 1:24 pm

          ISIL releases new audio purportedly of leader al-Baghdadi encouraging attacks in Canada

          https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1032373842465894400

          https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/is-leader-releases-purported-audio-1st-in-almost-a-year

          https://calgaryherald.com/news/canada/is-leader-releases-purported-audio-1st-in-almost-a-year/wcm/aaceb4cb-705c-4eef-a2e4-d06fc7d2feb5

        • Andy says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 1:30 pm

          ISIL releases new audio purportedly of leader al-Baghdadi encouraging attacks in Canada

          https://calgaryherald.com/news/canada/is-leader-releases-purported-audio-1st-in-almost-a-year/wcm/aaceb4cb-705c-4eef-a2e4-d06fc7d2feb5

          https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/is-leader-releases-purported-audio-1st-in-almost-a-year

          https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1032373842465894400

        • Andy says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 2:02 pm

          __________
          ISIL releases new audio purportedly of leader al-Baghdadi encouraging attacks in Canada

          https://calgaryherald.com/news/canada/is-leader-releases-purported-audio-1st-in-almost-a-year/wcm/aaceb4cb-705c-4eef-a2e4-d06fc7d2feb5

        • Andy says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 3:37 pm

          Maxime Bernier quits Conservative party

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eic3_Bh0L-s

        • Andy says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 3:59 pm

          Andrew Scheer is nothing but a reprehensible machiavelian.

          It is too bad that Maxime Bernier did not win the Conservative leadership race because he would have been the next Prime Minister of Canada.

        • Andy says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 4:12 pm

          Maxime Bernier quits to launch new party, criticizes ‘morally corrupt’ Conservatives

          I hope ALL CANADIANS VOTE for Maxime Bernier with his new party!

          https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-maxime-bernier-quits-to-launch-new-party-criticizes-morally-corrupt/

        • tpog says

          Aug 24, 2018 at 9:33 am

          Well done, Maxine Bernier, you’ve given turdolt a huge advantage — lieberals must be jumping for joy. Agree with Bernier re immigration, but he should have stuck with the Conservatives and fraught the issue out in caucus; Scheer is a fool for taking turdolt’s side on immigration.

          Was expecting ..slim justina to go to the people fairly soon taking advantage of Canadians feelings about the USA tariffs. Not. Necessary. Now. She can wait for the split in the Conservatives (echoes of PC/Reform yrs ago) to become solid and then go. Our dancing queen will then waltz up the middle and get 2nd and 3rd terms.

          NOTE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: can Canada become another state in the Union? its either that or, under the dolt, we’ll go from Canada to ISIC (has a nice ring to it, eh?).

          Its very dangerous when an idiot is in control.

        • Andy says

          Aug 24, 2018 at 3:09 pm

          When I heard Maime Bernier talk about two weeks ago on the state of affairs in Canada, I got a jolt in my spirit, finally someone in Canada telling the truth.

          The last time I felt that JOLT was when Donald J.Trump announced his candidacy for President of U.S.A. and we all know how that turned out.

          Everyone was against Trump from the time he announced he was running for President, I DO MEAN EVERYONE!!! I think if Canadians are fed up enough they will go for an Independent. Remember Trump was NOT supposed to win, but he did. The same can happen to the Great White North.

          Don’t give up the ship people, without a FIGHT!!!

          I hope Canadians will massively turnout for Maime Bernier for Prime Minister, He is the right man at the right time for the job.

        • Andy says

          Aug 24, 2018 at 3:11 pm

          CANADA IT IS YOUR TURN!

          CANADIAN “DEPLORABLES UNITE”

          Do you all remember this?

          Stand up for your Country, Canadians!

        • Andy says

          Aug 24, 2018 at 3:16 pm

          All Judeo-Christian Civilzation Heritage Countries need Patriot-Nationalists to be the leaders of their Countries now.

          We need truthful leaders who will stand up and tell it like it is, THE TRUTH!

          Anything less than that is suicide for any nation at this time in our history.

          What we don’t need is Conservative leaders pandering and catering to special interest groups just to get elected.

          Canadians have a unique voice now to stand up for them, If you don’t get on board the Bernier Train, you might ALL get left at the station of Trudeau for a very long time.

          CANADIANS GET ON BOARD THE BERNIER TRAIN!!!

        • Andy says

          Aug 24, 2018 at 3:17 pm

          Canada’s Trump | Maxime Bernier

      • Andy says

        Aug 23, 2018 at 9:52 pm

        Toronto Mayor Extremist Mosque Tour?!

  2. elee says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 12:39 pm

    I want more information about his Turkish co-conspirators and hope to find it here.

    Oh and……3 1/2 years nominal sentence, how many weeks in jail is that in real time?

  3. Renate says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 12:46 pm

    That’s one “Canadian” who really believes diversity is our strength. You can’t get much more diverse than exporting military tech to Iran.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 1:00 pm

    That this Iranian Muslim who lives in Canada was caught sending militarily technology to that “mullah regime ” of Iran further reveals that Islam is not actually “a peaceful and non -violent religion” as some naive and uninformed Westerners believe. Those Muslims in power in Iran know that Islam has much violence in the very essence of it.
    To explain all this in another another way, many young people and strangely many older people, who are Westerns who in the United States as well other countries of the West are, no doubt sincere but very misinformed ,as in misled, therefore say ,because they believe it, that “Islam is a peaceful and non-violent religion .” To those people the first and supreme Ayatollah, who was the very head this current Islamic regime of Iran knows better stated about how he feels about those naive Westerns .For he declared “Islam grew with blood….Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels” He also said “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
    So, in other words Ayatollah felt nothing but arrogant contempt for those people who say that his religion “Is a peaceful religion” and understand that they in ignorant and uninformed.
    Therefore the West needs to wake up to the reality of the truth about the actual violent essence of this religion.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM pages 336,339.

  5. Call me AL says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    Dont you think it is timely, that all the baddies in the US, Canada and the UK are now all Iranian ?.Gee, I wonder if that fits in nicely with Trump’ threats towards Iran.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 23, 2018 at 6:15 pm

      It looks like “Call me AL” is pretending that the poor Muslims sending military tech to the sanguinary Mullahs are being persecuted by mean old “Islamophobes”. Try again…

      And no–it is not just Iranian Muslims who are a threat. What rot.

  6. Renate says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    This is a man after Trudeau’s heart.

  7. Sheri says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    (ARTICLE)
    Canadian accused in Iran smuggling scheme arrested in Blaine
    Investigators: Ring laundered Iranian money, smuggled missile testing technology in violation of U.S. law

    By Levi Pulkkinen, SeattlePI Thursday, March 30, 2017
    An Iranian-born Canadian arrested in a Washington city on the U.S.-Canadian border has been charged with conspiring to ship a piece of testing equipment used to calibrate missile guidance systems into Iran.
    Federal prosecutors claim Ghobad Ghasempour and two other men smuggled restricted items out of the United States to Iran through China. Ghasempour was charged Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C.
    According to charging papers, Ghasempour created several front companies to help his father’s friends Iran launder money and import products in violation of sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program. Ghasempour, who is alleged to have begun the scheme in December 2011, is accused of arranging to ship a table used to calibrate aeronautical sensors into Iran in violation of U.S. law.
    A Chinese man managed the day-to-day operations of the China-based fronts, which arranged for goods to be shipped to Iran from the United States, China and Europe, a U.S. Homeland Security special agent said in charging papers. A man in Iran is alleged to have coordinated deliveries and money laundering for an engineering firm run by the Iranian government, Kiyan Saynpaniz International or KSP.
    According to charging papers, Ghasempour told the Chinese man in 2012 that a friend of his father was having difficulty importing paper-making materials from Brazil due to sanctions imposed on Iran. The men are alleged to have arranged to use Iranian oil money to buy supplies for the paper factory.
    As the scheme progressed, Ghasempour arranged to buy other items through the Chinese front companies, the special agent said in charging papers. The agent said Ghasempour and the Iranian man soon began requesting computer equipment not available in Iran.
    Decade-old sanctions against Iran were eased in January 2016 after the Iranian government agreed to limit its nuclear program. In recent months, though, the U.S. State Department has sanctioned dozens of businesses and individuals thought to be doing business with Iran. Bills currently before both houses of Congress would sanction financial institutions and others linked to Iran’s ballistic missile program.
    A June 2012 email exchange showed Ghasempour explain that he “had a ‘frank’ discussion with (the Iranian) and learned that KSP is an Iranian government engineering company that also purchases items for different Iranian government agencies,” the special agent said.
    “Ghasempour wrote that KSP will provide a lot of requests for items, but that the competition for the business is high and (their company) may not always win every bid,” the agent continued.
    Among the items the men are alleged to have purchased were pieces of equipment used to test guidance systems used in aircraft. The items required a special license for export due to possible military applications, which include developing missile technologies.
    Describing the 2016 shipment, investigators claim the Iranian partner agreed to pay $500,000 for one of the testing tables. They arranged to ship the item to Iran through a Portuguese company.
    Ghasempour is alleged to have conspired to violate U.S. law by conspiring to export the Ideal Aerosmith testing table. He was arrested Tuesday at Blaine, Washington.
    Investigators also contend that, in October 2015, the Iranian partner contacted Ghasempour with an urgent request regarding sonar systems. According to charging papers, Ghasempour was good friends with a Vancouver-based employee of Vard, a Norwegian marine architect. He is alleged to have tried to use that friendship to broker connections between the company and the Iranian Ministry of Defense
    Investigators detailed a collection of front companies set up to skirt sanctions limiting exports to Iran. They said Chinese partner and Ghasempour legitimized Iranian money through a Chinese bank with “ease.”
    Ghasempour has been charged with conspiracy to unlawfully export U.S.-origin goods to Iran. The two other men named in court papers have not be charged publicly.

  8. James Lincoln says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    If I am reading this correctly, it sounds like this Canadian was arrested “over the border” in Washington state.

    Would the outcome have been any different if he had been arrested in Justin Trudeau’s Muslim loving Canada?

    • Sheri says

      Aug 23, 2018 at 8:18 pm

      Good question. Also, I’m wondering where the heck they are keeping him because of the liberal leverage in the state. Wouldn’t doubt if I see him on my street soon.

  9. Agha Ali Arkhan says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 8:03 pm

    I am pi**ed off!. A Canadian.

  10. gravenimage says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 8:04 pm

    Are we going to see “christianblood” here lauding this Jihadist for stealing Western technology for Iran?

  11. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 24, 2018 at 7:39 pm

    Wow! A whole 3.5 years, just for the petty crimes of massive international arms-dealing?!

    This poor swarthy victimal person-of-color obviously had no idea what he was doing!

    THAT’S RAYCISSSS!”

    (/SARC OFF)

  12. TWG says

    Aug 25, 2018 at 11:54 am

    Glad to see some control at our border. Not nearly enough, but every little bit helps.

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