IRNA The spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed the accusations against an Iranian national in the US as 'baseless' and 'inadmissible'. Bahram Qasemi at his weekly briefing session on Monday said that the conviction of Sheikhzadeh is in line with previous US policies in pressuring Iranian nationals in the US and other countries. Referring ...

Reuters - A former consultant to Irans mission to the United Nations was sentenced to three months in prison on Friday for evading taxes by concealing his income and helping family and friends make money transfers that violated U.S. sanctions against Iran. Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, an Iran-born U.S. citizen, made the unusual decision to take the witness ...

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday that a former consultant to Iran's mission to the United Nations recruited a United States-based atomic scientist to meet with Iranian officials about Iran's nuclear program. The filing regarding the former consultant, Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, does not contain criminal charges, but was made to ...

U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled criminal charges at a Brooklyn, New York, court hearing against a consultant to the Iranian mission to the United Nations. Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, 60, is accused of charges related to sanctions violations, money laundering and tax matters, his lawyer, Steve Zissou, said at the hearing. Sheikhzadeh had pleaded ...