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LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities carried out a major arrest at LAX<\/a> Saturday night.<\/p>\n Officials say Shamim Mafi is an Iranian national who became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2016.<\/p>\n Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, posted on X, saying Mafi, 44, of Woodland Hills<\/a>, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport “for trafficking arms on behalf of the government of Iran.”<\/p>\n According to U.S. officials, she is charged with brokering the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses and millions of rounds of ammunition manufactured by Iran and sold to Sudan.<\/p>\n According to the criminal complaint, she maintains a residence in Woodland Hills and travels frequently to Iran, Turkey and other countries.<\/p>\n As the war in Iran continues, some in the Valley are applauding federal agents’ actions Saturday night.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s magnificent that they\u2019re cracking down, and they have to stick to it. You know, you start a game, you finish it,” one San Fernando Valley resident told FOX 11.<\/p>\n According to the complaint, law enforcement had learned Mafi was scheduled to travel from LAX to Turkey Saturday.<\/p>\n If convicted, she faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n She is expected to make her initial appearance on Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court.<\/p>\n Iran War<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Los Angeles<\/a>LAX<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities carried out a major arrest at LAX Saturday night. Officials say Shamim Mafi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8015,8716,34,196,26885,12243,21024,42,298,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-73796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-lax","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-transportation","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116434639447732893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}