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Alleged Iranian spies are already in the US — and infiltrating Silicon Valley
NY Post ^ | 3/23/26 | Isabel Vincent

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: california; iran; silicon; spies

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Almost one allegedly per paragraph.
1 posted on 03/23/2026 4:04:16 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

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


2 posted on 03/23/2026 4:10:53 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: jroehl

The US is in the middle of a communist color revolution.

We could use their help


3 posted on 03/23/2026 4:13:21 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Libloather

Why wouldn’t they be here? We knew this during the Biden administration


4 posted on 03/23/2026 4:15:08 PM PDT by stanne
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
You do realize that the mohammedans and the commies have been in bed together for over 100 years?
5 posted on 03/23/2026 4:28:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: Libloather

If there are, we can thank Biden and President Otto Penn for opening the border.


6 posted on 03/23/2026 4:28:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

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.


7 posted on 03/23/2026 4:35:14 PM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: Libloather

How come they’re “alleged” even when no one is named in the article?


8 posted on 03/23/2026 4:43:10 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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