Why are Iranians with close ties to Iran\u2019s despotic regime living large in the United States \u2013\u2013 and aiding Tehran from Los Angeles?<\/p>\n
The Trump administration is doing good work exploring that question, deporting compromised foreign nationals, and protecting national security.<\/p>\n
Federal authorities on Saturday nabbed yet another Iranian \u00e9migr\u00e9e living the high life in LA<\/a> \u2014 while serving the interests of Iran.<\/p>\n Shamim Mafi, 44, was allegedly operating out of a townhouse in Woodland Hills. Facebook\/Shamim Mafi<\/p>\n It was the latest in a string of busts by the feds following extensive reporting by The California Post on the luxe LA lives of Iran-aligned elites.<\/p>\n According to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Shamim Mafi, 44, allegedly helped Iran buy arms and evade sanctions through a business she ran from her Woodland Hills home.<\/p>\n She allegedly brokered an arms deal to sell Iranian drones to Sudan, moving money through Turkey and the UAE, as well as through a front company in Oman.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was also allegedly involved in deals to supply the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including machine guns, rocket launchers, and ammunition.<\/p>\n That\u2019s quite a record of allegedly aiding a US enemy from within the United States.<\/p>\n It\u2019s great to see Team Trump, including Essayli and FBI Director Kash Patel, lay the groundwork to get her out.<\/p>\n A real estate source told the Post the property wasn\u2019t owned by Mafi. Rafael Fontoura for CA Post<\/p>\n Revelations about Mafi raise a range of questions, including why she was here as a lawful permanent resident in the first place, how she obtained a green card \u2013\u2013 evidently in 2016 when Obama was president \u2013\u2013 and why it took so long to expel her.<\/p>\n Like Sarinasadat Hosseiny, the glam grandniece<\/a> of the late Iranian terror leader Gen. Qasem Soleimani<\/a>, who was arrested by ICE in LA earlier this month, Mafi was hardly incognito: She boasted of her lavish lifestyle on social media.<\/p>\n