Federal agents arrested a dual United States and Iranian citizen Wednesday for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran by supplying its nuclear and military establishment with American equipment. 

The Justice Department said 63-year-old Jamshid Ghomi of Newport Coast, California, has been charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.

Court documents allege that Ghomi, who is the founder, owner and CEO of the Tehran-based computer networking company Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd., used his company for over a decade to procure U.S.-origin networking equipment for customers in Iran without approval from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

He is also accused of taking in more than $10 million annually in sales from his tech company while only reporting a maximum income of $20,000 to the Internal Revenue Service, according to the New York Post.

“Our nation’s laws prohibiting doing business with one of the world’s largest state sponsors of terrorism must be enforced and obeyed," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement. "We will hold him accountable by seeking an appropriate prison sentence and by seizing his assets, including his $35 million Newport Beach mansion.”

The department alleged that Ghomi knew his actions were illegal and even took deliberate steps to conceal it by directing co-conspirators to keep his name off of shipping documents and omit invoices from shipments bound for Iran.

Ghomi is expected to make his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon at a federal court in Santa Ana, California.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.