Bahadorifar’s lawyer insisted to the New York Times his client was just another victim of a “cancerous Iranian regime.”

“When Iran’s terrorist leaders aren’t slaughtering their own people,” Jeffrey Lichtman said, “they’re traveling the globe trying to kill their critics, including the despicable manipulation of Ms. Bahadorifar by an old family friend.”

The eight Iranian non-U.S. citizens in U.S. detention or on supervised pretrial release for federal offenses.

Reza Olangian 

The indictment alleges that beginning in May 2012, Olangian communicated on multiple occasions with a confidential informant of the Drug Enforcement Administration posing as an aircraft and weapons broker and attempted to purchase “at least 200” IGLA-S surface-to-air missiles and other aircraft parts that he intended to transfer to the Iranian government.

Olangian said in recorded conversations and email correspondence with the informant that he intended to smuggle the missiles into Iran by land, either from Afghanistan or another neighboring country, the indictment said.

Olangian was arrested on Oct. 10, 2012, during a trip to Estonia and extradited to the U.S. in May, the indictment said. During questioning following his arrest, he stated that he had been working with Iranian government officials and that the missiles and aircraft parts he attempted to procure were for the Iranian government, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.