The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Reza Hashemi.md

category	tags	summary
Arms Dealers & Brokers	Person IranContra Israel	Iranian arms dealer and one of the Hashemi brothers involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations related to Iran-Contra.

Reza Hashemi was one of the Hashemi brothers, an Iran living in the United States. He was involved in secret arms sales and negotiations concerning the United States hostages in Tehran.¹

Reza Hashemi was arrested after his brothers, Cyrus Hashemi and Jamshid Hashemi, were tipped off about their indictment under the Arms Export Control Act for illegal arms sales to Iran. He became a hostage himself, which pressured his elder brothers to negotiate with U.S. Customs to become informants.¹

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1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎