EMID SHARGI

CONVICTED OF ESPIONAGE 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/iran-jails-u-s-businessman-possibly-jeopardizing-biden-s-plans-n1254551

Iran jails U.S. businessman, possibly jeopardizing Biden's plans for diplomacy with Tehran
The imprisonment of a fourth American could derail a bid by the
Biden administration to revive a nuclear agreement with Iran

Jan. 17, 2021, 6:40 PM CST

By Dan De Luce

WASHINGTON — Only weeks after the U.S. election and three days after an Iranian
 nuclear scientist was assassinated, Iranian authorities convicted a U.S. businessman on spying charges, a family friend said....   The man, Emad Shargi, 56, who is Iranian American, was summoned to a Tehran court Nov. 30 and told that he had been convicted of espionage without a trial and sentenced to 10 years, a family friend said...