Department of Justice Announces Indictments Following Seizure of Iranian Advanced Conventional Weaponry

       On August 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictments of two Iranian nationals and one Pakistani national. Iranian brothers Shahab Mir’kazei and Yunus Mir’kazei, and Pakistani citizen Muhammad Pahlawan were charged with “conspiring to provide and providing material support to Iran’s weapons of mass destruction program resulting in death and conspiring to commit violence against maritime navigation and maritime transport involving weapons of mass destruction resulting in death.”