Iranian faces jail over goggles
Press TV
19-Dec-2008 (3 comments)

An Iranian woman would face a five-year jail after a US jury convicted her of attempting to purchase night-vision goggles for Iran.

Twelve Jurors said on Thursday that they found Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan guilty of illegally trying to broker the deal to export 3,500 sophisticated goggles to her country. But the jury acquitted her of three conspiracy counts.

US laws ban all exports to Iran and prohibit the sale of military night- vision goggles without a license.

Gholikhan, who has already spent a year in prison, said she would appeal and insisted that she is innocent.

"I won't give up. It's OK. God is here," Gholikhan said in a brief courtroom interview.

US District Judge James I. Cohn set sentencing for March 6. Gholikhan, who acted as her own attorney during the trial, faces a total of about five years in prison on the three convictions.

Gholikhan, 31, and her husband, Mahmoud Seif, were arrested in Vienna, Austria, in 2004.

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IRANdokht aziz, unlike

by Farhad Kashani on Fri Dec 19, 2008 02:21 PM PST

IRANdokht aziz, unlike this "Ostaad" guy, I'm not brainwashed by Islamist Socialist propaganda machine. I do a lot of research and pick "news" not "opinions".

Thanks dear.


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IRANdokht

I doubt her sanity

by IRANdokht on Fri Dec 19, 2008 09:07 AM PST

if she wanted to buy the military night goggles for the IRI use, then she deserves the jail time. If she didn't want it for the gov, and was going to sell it to civilians (what for?) then trying to buy military grade equipment in US and thinking you can get away with it makes her an idiot. Civilians don't need night goggles anyway, they can't afford them either. The military and maybe drug traffickers do.

that was a very weird story Farhad jan! where do you find them :0)

IRANdokht


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Ostaad

Someone please tell this woman that only a fool...

by Ostaad on Fri Dec 19, 2008 08:57 AM PST

represents herself in a US  court. Any first-year law school student knows the last thing one would do is not have an attorney to represent you in court. I am not familiar with the details of this case but she would have been much better off if she had an attorney representing her here.


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