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On Wednesday, the subject of the FBI’s surveillance, Ahmadreza Doostdar, was sentenced to more than three years in prison for serving as an illegal agent of Iran, concluding a prosecution in Washington that addressed the global tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
Doostdar, a dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, was charged in August 2018 with surveilling members of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, a group that advocates for the overthrow of the Iranian government. Another Iranian citizen, Majid Ghorbani, was also charged with serving as an illegal agent of Iran in connection with the covert surveillance.
Both men pleaded guilty last year, with Doostdar admitting to charges that he served as an agent of Iran without notifying the U.S. attorney general. Ghorbani, who pleaded guilty to a single charge of providing services to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison.
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Doostdar had recruited Ghorbani to photograph and identify MEK members based in the U.S., with the goal of disrupting the group. Ballantine said the Iranian government has a record of “horrible acts of violence” against MEK, adding that the photographs provided information that could help Iran target the group’s members.
They had not notified the government that they were agents of Iran.
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