U.S. Seeks Singaporeans Extradition for Export Control Violations with Iran

Five people and four companies have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for smuggling electronic parts made in the U.S. to Iran via Singapore. Some of the electronic goods ended up in the remote controls of makeshift bombs seized by American forces in Iraq.[1] The parts are normally used in commonplace devices like routers that wirelessly connect computers and printers in a typical office network. The DOJ said in the indictment that the ones smuggled to Iran had been put to use in sophisticated improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that could be triggered from miles away.