A 44-year-old Iranian citizen extradited to the United States last week is scheduled to appear in US District Court in Seattle on a nine-count indictment accusing him of violating US sanctions on Iran through a scheme to procure restricted technology via China.
Reza Dindar, also known as Renda Dindar, faces charges including conspiracy, two counts of exporting goods to an embargoed country, two counts of smuggling goods from the United States, two counts of money laundering and two counts of filing false export records.
The charges in the indictment are allegations, and Dindar is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
According to prosecutors, Dindar and his co-conspirators fraudulently claimed that the goods they were purchasing in the United States were destined for China, while allegedly planning to ship them onward to Iran in violation of export controls.
The indictment alleges that in 2011 and 2012 Dindar and his associates used deception to purchase parts for three military sonar systems from a business in the Western District of Washington.
Dindar was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2014. He was arrested in Panama in July 2025 at the request of US authorities and extradited last week.
“The members of this conspiracy thought they could evade export restrictions by shipping goods through a third country—in this case China,” said First Assistant US Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
Prosecutors say Dindar managed a company called New Port Sourcing Solutions in Xi’an, China between 2010 and 2014. The firm allegedly concealed that it was procuring items in the United States on behalf of Iranian companies.
