A former Federal Aviation Administration contractor pleaded guilty to conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Iranian government in the United States without notifying the attorney general.
According to court documents, from at least December 2017 through June 2024, Abouzar Rahmati, 42, worked with Iranian government officials and intelligence operatives to act on their behalf in the United States.
The feds said this included meeting with Iranian intelligence officers in Iran, obtaining employment with an FAA contractor with access to sensitive non-public information about U.S. aviation and obtaining open-source and non-public materials about the U.S. solar energy industry and providing it to Iranian intelligence officers.
A federal district court judge will sentence Rahmati, a naturalized U.S. citizen and resident of Great Falls, Virginia, on Aug. 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison for acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the attorney general and up to five years for conspiracy.
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