BREAKING: FBI Raids $35M SoCal Mansion, Arrests CEO for Secret Shipments Aiding Iran’s Nuclear Program

The opulent mansion of an Iranian-born tech CEO is now the property of the US federal government.

And it will stay that way, if the charges stick.

Jamshid Ghomi is a dual US-Iranian citizen who was taken into custody a short time ago for allegedly aiding Iran’s military and nuclear programs.

The FBI descended on his $35 MILLION dollar mansion in the Newport Coast area of California, and left with Jamshid in handcuffs.

This is the sort of story that has me completely rethinking the idea of “dual-citizenship”.

Here was the scene as FBI Agents led the CEO from his mansion in a clip from Fox News as the story broke:

I see a lot of people on here who don’t realize just how embedded Iran and its terrorism actually is through throughout the entire world, including America. It’s like people don’t know who the globalists are.

Federal agents raided a $35 million mansion in Newport Coast,… pic.twitter.com/NjLOxE8QWl

— Todays World News (@TodaysWorldNews) June 3, 2026

The 63-year-old Jamshid is alleged to have engaged in secretive shipments to multiple Iranian customers.

Those customers allegedly included the military and nuclear programs of Iran…

To the tune of over $15 million according to the DOJ as reported by Fox News:

A California tech company CEO was arrested for allegedly supplying U.S. equipment to Iran’s nuclear and military establishment.

Jamshid Ghomi, 63, a dual Iranian and U.S. citizen residing in Newport Coast, Calif., is charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Ghomi allegedly procured “sophisticated U.S.-origin networking, security, and encryption equipment for Iranian customers — including the Iranian regime’s nuclear and military establishment,” according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.

Ghomi moved over $15 million from Iran into his U.S. bank accounts and a separate escrow account, falsely reporting the money to the IRS as a foreign inheritance, according to the DOJ.

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His federal tax returns reported almost no income with his highest reported income in any year being $20,684. He allegedly claimed the tax break intended for low- to moderate-income working individuals and families, in seven different tax years while reporting more than $1.7 million in mortgage interest and $1.25 million in state and local real-estate taxes on his federal income tax returns.

According to the DOJ, he used the proceeds from his “sanctions-evasion scheme” to fund the construction of a multi-million dollar Orange Country mansion. (Emphasis added.)

You can get a glimpse of that $35 million dollar mansion in the footage below.

This was taken by the news chopper of the local Fox affiliate out of Los Angeles:

BREAKING: Orange County tech CEO’s $35 million mansion raided by the FBI as he is arrested for selling US technology to the Iranian military.

Jamshid Ghomi, a dual citizen of the United States and Iran, was charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic… pic.twitter.com/KqyVMXwNdD

— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) June 3, 2026

According to that report, Jamshid Ghomi is expected to stand before a judge as early as this afternoon.

Here’s another couple of shots of the sprawling mansion which the DOJ alleges was built on illicit proceeds, included in a post by the Acting US AG Todd Blanche.

Blanche shared these image via X, arguing that Jamshid’s mansion was built using the “illegal proceeds” gained by providing technology and hardware to Iran’s military and nuclear programs:

Today, Jamshid Ghomi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who lives in a $35 million mansion in Orange County, California, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with selling computer technology to Iranian companies and Iran’s government — including technology to help… pic.twitter.com/EdL4OsB8Y5

— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) June 3, 2026

Here’s the full text of AG Blanche’s post for easier reading:

Today, Jamshid Ghomi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who lives in a $35 million mansion in Orange County, California, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with selling computer technology to Iranian companies and Iran’s government — including technology to help with Iran’s military and nuclear program.

These allegations assert that the defendant violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, aided one of our nation’s enemies, supported Iran’s nuclear program, and got rich doing it. Not only is he being arrested today, but we also are beginning the process of seizing his mansion, which was purchased with his illegal proceeds. Thanks to the work of @USAttyEssayli ’s office, @CommerceGov , and @IRS_CI ’s Los Angeles Field Office, he will face the full force of justice.

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US authorities descended on the mansion before the sun came up.

And they went in ready for a possible fight, as reported by the New York Post:

Federal agents, in a daring predawn raid Wednesday, pounced on the opulent, $35 million Newport Beach mansion of an Iranian tech boss charged with supplying US computer hardware to Iran’s military and nuclear programs.

Early Wednesday morning, dozens of agents dressed in tactical gear and carrying automatic weapons gathered early at a parking lot in tony Newport Beach near the accused Ghomi’s palatial pad.

From there, agents sped in a convoy to the property at 31 High Water within an exclusive gated community, encircling the mansion’s manicured grounds before calling for him to come out.

“What’s going on?” asked one of the stunned occupants of the mansion, as two of Ghomi’s adult sons and his wife were led outside by agents.

More agents carrying power tools and evidence boxes entered Ghomi’s the Italianate estate, while an interpreter arrived to interview him.

Ghomi eventually emerged after the interview and was taken into custody by agents who placed him in a silver SUV.

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For more than a decade, Ghomi allegedly used a Tehran-based computer networking company he founded called Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh to procure US networking equipment for customers in Iran in violation of US sanctions, prosecutors charge.

Ghomi arranged the secret shipment of more than 250 tons of controlled US technology and used his own eBay and PayPal accounts to make hundreds more purchases of computer-networking equipment that was shipped to Iran illegally, federal investigators say. (Emphasis added.)

I did some quick math.

It turns out that 250 metric tons is roughly equivalent to something like 25 adult elephants.

Or, to use different imagery, something like 125 average-sized vehicles.

That’s how much illegal material the DOJ is charging Jamshid Ghomi with secretly selling and shipping to Iran over more than a decade.

He’s being charged in relation to the IEEPA – the International Emergency Economic Powers Act which governs what and who falls under US sanctions.

But he’s also being charged with federal tax crimes — isn’t that how they got Capone? — as detailed in this press release from the DOJ:

According to the affidavit filed with the complaint, Ghomi is the founder, owner, and CEO of Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd. (FPR), a Tehran-based computer networking company. For more than a decade, Ghomi has used FPR to procure U.S.-origin networking equipment for customers in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. At no time did Ghomi or FPR obtain a license from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) authorizing those transactions.

Ghomi identified, negotiated, purchased, and arranged the shipment of large quantities of controlled U.S. technology for his own company.

None of these items could be lawfully exported to Iran without a license from OFAC.

Ghomi knew this conduct was illegal and took deliberate steps to conceal it. He directed his UAE co-conspirators to keep his name off shipping paperwork, to omit invoices from shipments bound for Iran, and on at least two occasions to hide U.S.-origin computer equipment inside larger shipments. He used front companies in the UAE to obscure his role, and he personally received warnings on invoices and software licenses that exporting these goods to Iran was prohibited. Ghomi and his co-conspirators referred to Iran as “Motherland” in their internal correspondence concerning the equipment’s procurement.

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From 2017 to 2023, FPR supplied U.S.-origin computer networking equipment to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) – the Iranian government agency responsible for Iran’s nuclear program, including its centrifuge and uranium-enrichment programs. The U.S. State Department sanctioned AEOI in 2020 for playing a leading role in Iran’s nonperformance of its nuclear commitments, including exceeding the limits on its uranium stockpile and enrichment levels.

From 2011 to 2024, Ghomi moved more than $15 million from Iran into his U.S. bank accounts and into a construction escrow account held on his behalf. He falsely reported those funds to the IRS as a foreign inheritance. Ghomi’s federal tax returns reported almost no income, his highest reported income in any year being $20,684. Ghomi claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit, a federal tax break for low- to moderate-income working individuals and families, in seven different tax years. Over the same period, Ghomi reported more than $1.7 million in home-mortgage interest and $1.25 million in state and local real-estate taxes on his federal income tax returns.

Imagine (allegedly…) operating a successful American front company — for more than a decade.

Imagine living up that lavish lifestyle, thinking all the while you had outwitted and outpaced the US government.

Literally getting away with circumventing US sanctions against the Iranian military and nuclear programs… and you think you’ve done it.

You’re living high on the hog, and you have the multi-million dollar mansion in SoCal to prove it!

And then, one morning…

Knock, Knock.  “Open up — federal agents!  We have a warrant for your arrest!”

And just like that, law and order matters once again.

What do you bet there are more agents of foreign governments operating just barely beneath the radar —

Who won’t be sleeping quite so soundly as they have for the past few years in their $35 million dollar mansions… tonight?