A former engineer at a U.S. semiconductor manufacturing company pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he illegally purchased technology from an Iranian company that made a key component of a drone used in a January 2024 attack by Iranian-backed militants on a U.S. site in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members and wounded others, Reuters reported.
Mehdi Sadeghi, an Iranian-American who was expelled by Analog Devices after his arrest on Dec. 16, 2024, pleaded not guilty during a hearing in federal court in Boston, denying the charges and saying he participated in a scheme to violate U.S. export control and sanctions laws.
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