(Source: ICE - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) June 10, 2013 Maryland man convicted of conspiring to illegally provide satellite services to Iran GREENBELT, Md. - A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Iran was convicted Monday of conspiracy to provide illegal satellite services to Iran, money laundering and obstruction of bankruptcy proceedings. As a result of this violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, an Iranian earth observation satellite equipped with a camera was launched into space from Russia Oct. 27, 2005, the first-ever Iranian satellite put into orbit. Nader Modanlo, aka Nader Modanlou and Nader Modanlu, 52, of Potomac, Md., was convicted by a federal...
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