‘Iran agents’ charged

WASHINGTON: Prosecutors have announced charges against two men arrested on August 9 and accused of acting as agents of the government of Iran, covertly monitoring a Jewish centre in Chicago and American members of an Iranian opposition group in exile on behalf of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Criminal complaints against Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar, 38, a dual US-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were unsealed after an indictment was returned on Monday, according to the US Justice Department and US attorney’s office of the District.