CNN —Two Iranian citizens are facing federal charges in connection to a drone strike that killed three US Army soldiers and injured dozens more in Jordan early this year, the US Justice Department announced Monday.
The men, 42-year-old Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi and 38-year-old Mohammad Abedini, are charged with conspiring to export electronic equipment from the United States to Iran.
Sadeghi, who is a dual US-Iranian citizen, lives in Massachusetts and made his initial appearance in court Monday.
Abedini is also charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and was arrested Monday in Italy.
CNN has reported that the enemy drone followed a different, American drone as it approached the US military outpost along the Syrian border, though it was not immediately clear whether the enemy drone intentionally followed the American one or if it was a coincidence.
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Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, Mohammad Abedini, Abedini, CNN’s Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann, Jack Forrest
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