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Iranian Pleads Guilty to Aiding Illegal Alien With Ties to Terrorism

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Iranian national Sharon Gohari pleaded guilty on Tuesday to unlawfully smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States—including one with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—and intentionally receiving child pornography, The Daily Signal has learned.

Gohari, a naturalized U.S. citizen who resided alternately in Iran and Nassau County, New York, asked for and received payments from Iranian nationals and others seeking to enter the United States illegally, according to the Department of Justice. These transactions occurred between at least December 2020 up to his arrest in May 2025.

Gohari aided at least one person in entering the U.S. who had associations with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the State Department designates a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“Gohari made a business of smuggling aliens into the United States, at least one of whom had ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated foreign terrorist organization,” Assistant Attorney General for National........

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