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Reza Hashemi was one of the Hashemi brothers, an Iran living in the USA. He was involved in secret arms sales and negotiations concerning the USA 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 United States Customs Service to become informants.1

Footnotes

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