Posted on 03/23/2026 4:04:16 PM PDT by Libloather
Alleged Iranian spies with ties to regime bigwigs have been charged with infiltrating Silicon Valley.
Last month, a federal grand jury indicted three Iranian software engineers for allegedly stealing trade secrets from tech companies, including Google.
Two of the suspects are sisters, Samaneh Ghandali, 41, and Sorvoor Ghandali, 32. They were charged alongside Mohammadjavad Khosravi,40, who is Samaneh’s husband, with allegedly using their employment at unidentified technology companies to “obtain access to confidential and sensitive information,” according to the Department of Justice.
The tech workers then allegedly “exfiltrated confidential and sensitive documents, including trade secrets related to processor security and cryptography and other technologies, from Google and other technology companies.”
They are then accused of transferring the confidential data to other locations, including Iran, according to the indictment. They have all pleaded not guilty.
The Ghandali sisters’ father is Iranian regime insider Shahabeddin Ghandali, a former chief executive of the Teachers Investment Fund Corporation back in Iran. He was arrested and charged over an embezzlement of $2.5 billion in 2016, and fraud involving Iran’s Bank Sarmayeh, according to reports. Although arrested, it is unclear if he was ever prosecuted in relation to the scheme, as others were.
Opponents of the Iranian regime in the US say that the family connections could have facilitated the alleged spying.
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Well we have like 3 million Indian guys working for American companies right now. Taking millions of Americans jobs. So the 2 Iranian chicks? Really?
https://www.uscis.gov/archive/h-1b-employer-data-hub-files
The US is in the middle of a communist color revolution.
We could use their help
Why wouldn’t they be here? We knew this during the Biden administration
If there are, we can thank Biden and President Otto Penn for opening the border.
When I was in graduate school, about 1981, there were Iranian graduate students there.
One of them tried to see if he could get information on obtaining parts for, as I recall F-4 Phantoms?
Iranian spies have been in the USA for at least 45 years.
How come they’re “alleged” even when no one is named in the article?
Those 3 million Indian workers have the lowest crime rate of any ethnic group in USA. Also the lowest percent on welfare. And they pay every tax, local & federal. Not to mention highest earning ethnic group in USA are those with India background. USA is lucky to have such talented and hard working immigrants.
I would like to go to India and run their computer systems.
I worked with two Iranian sisters at Intel. They worked at the Sacramento site.
We called them “The Dragon Ladies”
I was always amazed that they never got fired for ethics violations.
I had an Iranian at our Intel Portland site ask where he could buy machine guns.
Nearly reported the event to the FBI.
I don’t think you have ever had to work for one.
The women are the worst as I think its the first time in their lives they have been able to give orders to men.
Hezbollah has been here since the 90s.
Ajaykumar (AKA bobbyvotes because he wants to seem like an American while he pushes for the Indian takeover) is overly proud of himself. I think he should go home.
3 million grifting, invading Indians need to go home yesterday.
If you are not native American, you should go back to where your ancestors came from. As soon as you do that, I will do the same.
You will be shocked how many Americans work in India.
“If you are not native American, you should go back to where your ancestors came from. As soon as you do that, I will do the same.”
There is the little lefty Indian puke showing his teeth caterwauling about stolen land. Should all Freepers be forced to preface their comments with “stolen land” acknowledgments?
Sod off and go home.
>>>pushes for the Indian takeover<<<
I took me a couple of responses to figure out who bobbyvotes is. He is exhibit #1 of who should not be in our country for obvious reasons.
He’s an H1B visa invader, using an English name handle, and posting pro-colonization comments. He needs to go.
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