[caption id="attachment_153046" align="alignright" width="175"] Archive: A pair of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fly over northern Iraq, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. Photo by AP[/caption] HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A former defense contractor accused of sending sensitive information about U.S. military jet programs to his native Iran in an effort ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A former defense contractor charged with trying to ship to Iran stolen proprietary information about the Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program and military jet engines pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. Mozaffar Khazawee entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport to charges of transporting property stolen from ...

Tehran has slammed the apprehension of Iranian nationals in the US as part of a propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic. All the hype and traps against Iranian citizens abroad are merely propaganda and media speculation and no offense has been committed by Iranian citizens, Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Iranian ...

(Reuters) - A former engineer for defense contractors has been indicted on charges that he tried to sendIransecret details on the U.S. Air Force's F-35 joint strike fighter program, the office of the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut said on Tuesday. The accused man, Mozaffar Khazaee, a dual U.S. and Iranian citizen, was arrested on January 9 at Newark ...

US authorities have arrested an Iranian-American engineer accused of attempting to ship stolen documentation on a high-tech military plane to Iran. Federal prosecutors have charged Mozaffar Khazaee, 59, with trying to smuggle thousands of pages of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter documents. Mr Khazaee stole the documents from defence contractors that ...