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Federal prosecutors said a 44-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested Saturday night at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of helping Iran traffic\u00a0weapons to Sudan, which is in its fourth year of a bloody\u00a0civil war.<\/p>\n
Shamim Mafi will face charges that she brokered the sale of \u201cdrones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition\u201d between Iran and the Sudanese Armed Forces, First U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Sunday on social media.<\/p>\n
A phone number for Mafi could not be located and it wasn\u2019t known Sunday if she has an attorney who could speak on her behalf.<\/p>\n
Essayli posted a photo of someone in an FBI jacket escorting a woman into the back of a sedan outside a terminal at LAX.<\/p>\n
Mafi is an Iranian national who became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2016, Essayli said.<\/p>\n
A criminal complaint dated March 12 alleges that Mafi and an unnamed co-conspirator operated a company in Oman called Atlas International Business through which weapons and ammunition were trafficked. The company received over $7 million in payments in 2025.<\/p>\n
Separately, Mafi and the co-conspirator brokered the sale of 55,000 bomb fuses to the Sudanese Ministry of Defense, according to the court documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn connection with the transaction, Mafi submitted a letter of intent to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (\u2018IRGC\u2019) to purchase the bomb fuses for Sudan,\u201d the complaint said.<\/p>\n
Mafi is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Monday. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n
The Sudanese\u00a0civil war\u00a0has created a humanitarian crisis in the North African country where food supplies are dwindling and millions of people have fled their homes.<\/p>\n
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