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1.- Song ngữ…về vụ bắt giữ Jamshid Ghomi, 63 tuổi, công dân song tịch Mỹ-Iran, với cáo buộc âm mưu vi phạm Đạo luật về Quyền lực Kinh tế Khẩn cấp Quốc tế.
2.- Phát giác có những tổ chức bí mật yểm trợ những cuộc bạo động chống ICE tại Newark.
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Jamshid Ghomi là ai?
Hôm qua tôi có loan tin về vụ bắt giữ Jamshid Ghomi, 63 tuổi, công dân song tịch Mỹ-Iran, với cáo buộc âm mưu vi phạm Đạo luật về Quyền lực Kinh tế Khẩn cấp Quốc tế.
Đây là vụ án lớn, liên quan trực tiếp đến vấn đề công nghệ hạt nhân của Iran, mà Hoa Kỳ đặt lên hàng đầu suốt hàng chục năm qua và càng nóng bỏng trong giai đoạn hiện tại.
Chắc chắn sẽ có nhiều chi tiết trong vụ này không thể công khai vì lý do hệ trọng của vấn đề. Nhưng dựa theo các thông tin đã được công bố chính thức của Bộ Tư pháp, cũng như vài nguồn từ truyền thông, có một số thông tin “lý thú” trong vụ này.
Như ông Quyền Tổng Chưởng lý Hoa Kỳ Todd Blanche cho biết hôm qua: “Nhờ vào nỗ lực làm việc của Văn phòng Công tố Liên bang Bill Essayli…”, có thể hiểu Công tố Liên bang Bill Essayli đã đóng vai trò rất quan trọng trong đại án an ninh quốc gia này.
Công tố viên Liên bang Bill Essayli nhấn mạnh: “Các tình tiết của vụ án này thật sự gây sốc. Jamshid Ghomi bị cáo buộc tiếp tay cho những kẻ thù tuyên chiến của chúng ta bằng cách bán các linh kiện công nghệ Mỹ cho Iran để kiếm hàng triệu đô. Ông ta thực hiện hành vi này ngay khi đang sống và tận hưởng sự tự do tuyệt vời mà đất nước chúng ta mang lại. Chúng tôi sẽ bắt ông ta phải chịu trách nhiệm hoàn toàn trước pháp luật, tìm kiếm một mức án tù thích đáng và tịch thu toàn bộ tài sản bất hợp pháp của ông ta, kể cả dinh thự tại Newport Beach.”
Theo đó, Jamshid Ghomi, là người sáng lập kiêm Giám đốc điều hành (CEO) của Tập đoàn công nghệ Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd. có trụ sở tại Tehran, Iran, Ghomi bị truy tố tội danh Âm mưu vi phạm Đạo luật Quyền lực Kinh tế Khẩn cấp Quốc tế (IEEPA). Nếu bị kết tội, đối tượng phải đối mặt với mức án tối đa là 20 năm tù giam trong nhà tù liên bang.
Ghomi điều hành một mạng lưới buôn lậu công nghệ tinh vi kéo dài hơn một thập niên, từ năm 2011 đến năm 2023. Ghomi sử dụng chính tài khoản eBay và PayPal cá nhân tại Mỹ để thực hiện hàng trăm giao dịch mua gom các thiết bị mạng vi tính, bảo mật và mã hóa tinh vi có nguồn gốc từ Hoa Kỳ.
Đối tượng không vận chuyển thẳng hàng về Iran nhằm tránh cấm vận. Thay vào đó, hàng hóa được vận chuyển đến các công ty bình phong trung gian tại Dubai, UAE.
Tại đây, Ghomi ra lệnh cho các đồng phạm xóa sạch tên ông ta trên giấy tờ, giấu thiết bị Mỹ vào các thùng hàng lớn khác để chuyển tiếp về Iran.
Chỉ tính riêng giai đoạn 2014–2018, mạng lưới của Ghomi đã tuồn lậu thành công hơn 275 tấn thiết bị mạng vi tính vào Iran. Khách hàng của Ghomi chính là Bộ Quốc phòng Iran và đặc biệt là Tổ chức Năng lượng Nguyên tử Iran (AEOI), cơ quan chịu trách nhiệm phát triển chương trình hạt nhân bị Mỹ trừng phạt nghiêm ngặt. Doanh thu từ công ty của ông ta tại Tehran đạt trên $10 triệu đô mỗi năm.
Thế nhưng, Công tố viên Bill Essayli tiết lộ một chi tiết gây phẫn nộ trong dư luận: Vụ án thực chất bắt nguồn từ một cuộc điều tra dòng tiền của Sở Thuế vụ (IRS).
Dù sống trong một dinh thự xa hoa xây dựng từ năm 2010, với riêng chi phí đất và xây dựng đã là hơn $15 triệu đô, tuy vậy, Ghomi chỉ báo cáo thu nhập ròng hàng năm với Sở Thuế vụ ở mức cao nhất là $20,684 đô.
Thậm chí, tay tài phiệt này còn lừa dối chính quyền để nhận các khoản trợ cấp thuế dành cho người có thu nhập thấp liên tục trong suốt 7 năm liền.
IRS đã phát giác và theo dõi hơn $15 triệu đô dòng tiền từ các tài khoản nước ngoài (được khai báo giả danh là các chi phí thương mại thông thường) chảy vào tài khoản bảo chứng (escrow) của Ghomi tại Mỹ để tài trợ cho việc xây dựng dinh thự tráng lệ ở Newport Coast nói trên.
Ngay sau khi bắt giữ Ghomi, chính phủ liên bang tiến hành quy trình tịch thu tài sản để sung công quỹ dinh thự $35 triệu đô và có thể còn có nhiều tài sản “ngầm” khác của y.
Trong phiên trình diện ban đầu diễn ra vào chiều qua (3/6/2026) tại Tòa án Liên bang Hoa Kỳ ở Santa Ana, Thẩm phán liên bang đã tiến hành các thủ tục tố tụng chủ yếu đối với Ghomi.
Do tính chất nghiêm trọng của vụ án xâm phạm an ninh quốc gia, Văn phòng Biện lý Liên bang đệ trình yêu cầu khẩn cấp lên Thẩm phán nhằm bác bỏ quyền bảo lãnh tại ngoại do nguy cơ y bỏ trốn cực cao: Ghomi mang hai quốc tịch Mỹ và Iran, đồng thời sở hữu một mạng lưới tài chính, công ty và các mối quan hệ rộng lớn tại nước ngoài (Tehran và Dubai). Phía công tố lập luận rằng nếu được tại ngoại, bị cáo có thể dễ dàng tẩu tán tài sản và trốn về Iran, quốc gia không có hiệp định dẫn độ với Mỹ.
Chắc chắn vụ án này sẽ không thể kết thúc trong một sớm một chiều, mà sẽ kéo dài nhằm khui ra tất cả các chân rết, các đồng sự tại Hoa Kỳ và quốc tế.
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US officials have arrested a dual US-Iranian citizen who they accuse of using his technology company to violate US sanctions by smuggling sensitive computer systems to Iran, including to Iran’s nuclear and military establishment.
Jamshid Ghomi, 63, was arrested on Wednesday morning in a raid on his home in Newport Coast in the Los Angeles area.
According to prosecutors, Ghomi began making illegal shipments to Iran in 2011, ultimately smuggling hundreds of tonnes of “sophisticated US-origin networking, security, and encryption equipment for Iranian customers”.
Ghomi, who has not yet commented on the case, faces up to 20 years in prison.
He appeared in court on Wednesday and entered no plea, and his arraignment has been set for July 13, according to ABC News.
Ghomi is charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a news release from the US Department of Justice.
“Ghomi is accused of aiding our declared enemies by selling US-origin computer networking parts to Iran and earning millions of dollars in violation of US sanction laws,” said Attorney Bill Essayli.
“Our nation’s laws prohibiting doing business with one of the world’s largest state sponsors of terrorism must be enforced and obeyed. We will hold him accountable by seeking an appropriate prison sentence and by seizing his assets, including his $35 million (£26m) Newport Beach mansion.”
Ghomi – the owner and CEO of the Tehran-based computer networking company Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. Ltd. (FPR) – is alleged to have used his job to purchase sanctioned goods in the US and ship them to Iran via the United Arab Emirates.From 2014 to 2018, he allegedly arranged for more than 250 metric tonnes of networking equipment to be illegally sent to Iran.
Prosecutors say he took steps to conceal his activities, all while earning his company more than $10m (£7.4m) in annual sales.
FPR’s “clientele included hundreds of Iranian companies and government entities”, prosecutors say, adding that “a relatively small but significant portion of that business went to the most sensitive end-users in Iran: the Iranian regime’s nuclear and military establishment.”
He then allegedly laundered his proceeds, wiring them to himself in California via intermediaries in the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Turkey, and the UAE.
From 2011 to 2024, he is accused of moving more than $15m (£11.1m) to himself, falsely reporting the funds to tax regulators as “foreign inheritance”.
Some of the proceeds are alleged to have gone towards his home in Orange County, where he was arrested. Officials say he purchased the property in 2010 for almost $4.5m (£3.3m), and later paid approximately $10.5m (£7.8m) to build himself a luxury mansion.
The Trump administration accuses Iran of using its nuclear programme to pursue an atomic weapon, a claim which it denies.
His arrest comes as the conflict between US and Iran continues with no end in sight.
US President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that negotiations between the two countries are “going on continuously”.
Các đoạn chat bí mật trên ứng dụng Signal tiết lộ cách những kẻ khích động chống lại ICE phối hợp các cuộc bạo loạn tại Newark.
Những người dùng xử dụng các tên bí mật đã tổ chức chuẩn bị các dụng cụ y tế, bao gồm mặt nạ hỗ trợ hô hấp, khăn lau tẩm hơi cay và miếng đệm bảo vệ.
Secret Signal chats reveal how anti-ICE agitators coordinated Newark riots
Users with secret monikers organize medic supplies including respirators, pepper spray wipes and protective pads
By Asra Q. Nomani , Michael Dorgan , Preston Mizell Fox News
Published June 4, 2026 7:34am EDT
At 11:30 a.m. on June 3, an activation signal went out on social media calling protesters and agitators to swarm Delaney Hall, the Newark, N.J. ICE detention facility that has become one of the nation’s most contentious immigration battlegrounds.
“CURFEW IS OVER. BACK TO DELANEY,” read an Instagram post, promoted by a fiery collection of anti-Israel, Marxist and Democratic organizations — from “Palestine Solidarity Working Group” and Al-Awda to Indivisible and 50501 — that have joined tumultuous against the ICE, Newark police and New Jersey state troopers over the past couple of weeks.
Within minutes, the call to action spread through secret groups on Signal, an encrypted messaging platform, activating hundreds of anti-ICE activists with secret monikers like “framed.unrest” and “Wicked Something,” collaborating on transportation, logistics and supplies, like goggles, protections against pepper spray, respirators and protective knee pads.
A Fox News Digital investigation, gathering information on the ground in Newark, in secret chat groups on Signal and from scores of tax filings, strategy documents and social media posts, reveals the protests outside Delaney Hall are no organic outpouring of spontaneous rage. They are the result of years of strategic planning by a network of well-funded, well-organized groups that have once again exploited a local controversy to wage a wider attack on federal immigration policies and the U.S. in general.
The activities of this network have motivated a group of tech sleuths on the X — @DataRepublican, @Astrarce, @bitchuneedsoap and @gunshymartyr — to penetrate these groups, their Signal chats and their operations like a digital Avengers squad.
BLUE STATE ICE FACILITY RAMPS UP SECURITY WITH NEW BARRICADES AMID CLASHES WITH PROTESTERS
State police officers arrest a person outside Delaney Hall detention center during a protest against detainee transfers and federal immigration policies in Newark, N.J., on May 29, 2026. (Andres Kudacki/AP)According to Fox News Digital’s analysis, the network behind the Delaney Hall protests includes about 100 groups, some of them big names like the ACLU, Indivisible and Democratic Socialists of America. Together, these organizations report collective annual revenues of about $825 million, approximately equal to the annual budget of Newark. The groups didn’t respond to requests for comment.
About 70 of the groups have received special designations as charities by the IRS, have status as regular 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits, as well as labor union 501(c)(5) and 501(c)(6) nonprofits, enjoying tax-deductible donations and certain tax-free benefits. In recent months, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee have launched investigations into the alleged abuse of nonprofit laws to instigate conflict, sow discord and even inspire political violence.
The Delaneny network — which one expert calls the “Delaney Hall 100” — message around shared language assembled in a strategic communications document, called the “Delaney Hall Creator Brief,” which Fox News Digital obtained from X user @b—-uneedsoap. The strategy document directs content creators to call the detention center a “concentration camp” and label detainees “imprisoned prisoners” and “captives.” It tells activists to eschew saying detainees were arrested, but rather assert they were “kidnapped/abducted/taken.”
Protestors gathered outside Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s office at the State House in Trenton, N.J., on June 1, 2026, demanding she take action and speak to the group about the Delaney Hall ICE facility. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)Their tactics mirror the system deployed in Minneapolis earlier this year to protest ICE actions, and military experts say the operations resemble the tactics of an insurgency.
“We should be very concerned about the Delaney Hall 100,” said Chuck Flint, a nonprofit expert and former U.S. Senate chief of staff. “Protests like the kind we’re seeing outside Delaney Hall are not organic protests. These are manufactured strategic, calculated endeavors by an army of nonprofits meant to push subversive activity. These groups generate annual revenues greater than many of the cities in which they protest. They act like military battalions with the ability to overwhelm a city’s public safety resources.”
“It’s David vs. Goliath,” said Flint, who is also a former state prosecutor.
FOX NEWS DIGITAL ANALYSIS: HOW MINNEAPOLIS AGITATOR NETWORKS USE INSURGENCY TACTICS TO HINDER ICE
Hasan Piker speaks with an interviewer during a protest in New Jersey. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)Last weekend, Fox News Digital spotlighted a series of far-left groups that self-identify as socialist, Marxist and communist blending in with immigrant groups. They included Democratic Socialists of America, the U.S. Revolutionary Communist Party, Speak Out Socialist, Refuse Fascism, Freedom Road Socialists Organization, Freedom Socialist Party and the Black Panthers.
Fox News Digital observed tents stocked with respirators, goggles, protective pads, decontamination supplies and other protest-support equipment.
Late last Saturday, controversial Marxist influencer Hasan Piker arrived at the protests for a quick walk-through, wearing a pink gas mask. He told Fox News Digital that he was there to advocate for the demands of the detainees inside, remaining on the scene for less than 30 minutes before driving off.
Later, he responded to Fox News Digital’s images of the tents filled with riot-gear provisions and called the supplies “mutual aid.”
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The preparations for protests Wednesday night offer a window into how the organizations motivate, coordinate, mobilize, focus and discipline their foot soldiers.
By 1:17 p.m., a user, “Pete InDC,” shared a video outside the detention facility, with a car honking nonstop and “ICE OUT” drawn in chalk on Doremus Avenue.
“Come on down!” wrote “Pete InDC.”
AGITATORS OUTSIDE DELANEY HALL SET UP ORGANIZED LOGISTICS OPERATION BEFORE NEWARK PROTESTS BEGAN
- Protesters are seen at a supply station near Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 30, 2026. (Fox News Digital / Michael Dorgan)
At 1:29 p.m., “yarrow” asked, “any car pools from nyc today? or any medics coming from nyc?”
By 1:46 p.m., others asked if one of the main protest organizers, Cosesha, approved the protest, and yet others started organizing logistics, starting with the ordinary: food, drinks, bike racks, transportation, parking and tents, as if they were headed to a concert.
“Tamale” asked “so if we do go should we be bringing supplies or only rallying? do ppl need water.”
By 2:11 p.m., when “Durga” asked for others to “like” the message if they were on Doremus Avenue, another user — “tiny” — admonished “Durga,” warning “please don’t self id in the chat,” adding “or ask others to.”
Often these organizations speak their own language, for example, compiling “otg” — or “on the ground” — intelligence.
At 3:08 p.m., “Jay D” asked, “Is anyone otg and can give a report?”
Protestors, politicians and ICE agents gather outside Delaney Hall, an immigration facility in Newark, N.J., on May 27, 2026. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)Quickly, the communications moved into a very serious preparation for a showdown with law enforcement authorities.
By 4:07 p.m., “Mason D” offered to bring “sudecon wipes for help with pepper spray/tear gas attacks, multiple sets of protective pads for elbows/knees, electrolytes” and “non-ventilated goggles.” Sudecon wipes are specialized decontamination towelettes designed to neutralize and remove chemical defense sprays like pepper spray and tear gas.
Behind the scenes, months, or even years, of coordination precede these events. This past weekend’s violent mobilization came after about a year of quieter activism by local groups.
In late May, hundreds of detainees launched a hunger and labor strike, igniting a wider network of advocacy organizations, legal groups, faith leaders, community organizers, elected officials and national nonprofits that quickly mobilized around the facility.
Within days, congressional delegations were demanding access, rapid-response networks were coordinating demonstrations across New Jersey, and the issue had become a national political story.
Fox News Digital found that many of the organizations active today had spent years building coalitions, communications networks, funding relationships and rapid-response infrastructure before the current protests began.
BLUE STATE POLITICAL BATTLE INTENSIFIES AFTER DEM MAYOR’S ARREST AT ICE FACILITY: ‘OUTRAGED’
The origins of the Delaney Hall 100 can be traced to February 2025 when GEO Group Inc., a federal contractor, said that it would reopen Delaney Hall in Newark as a federal immigration detention facility under a long-term contract with ICE. The facility, near Newark Liberty International Airport, had previously housed immigration detainees before closing in 2017.
In April 2025, the City of Newark filed legal challenges against the reopening, arguing that the facility had begun operations without required permits and inspections. Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka publicly opposed the project and made Delaney Hall a central issue in his ongoing dispute with federal immigration authorities and private detention contractors.
Around then, a small group of local activists began gathering outside the facility. According to accounts from participants, one activist started visiting Delaney Hall alone in the days before detainees arrived, distributing flyers to employees and raising concerns about immigration detention. Within days, two additional activists joined. What began as an informal vigil evolved into a regular presence outside the facility.
DAVID MARCUS: DEMOCRATS OWN THE CHAOS AND RACISM AT NEW JERSEY ANTI-ICE RIOTS
Those early gatherings became the foundation for what would later be known as “Eyes on ICE NJ.”
Throughout the spring and summer of 2025, the coalition expanded. Members of “NJ Peace Action,” “Pax Christi New Jersey,” “Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace,” “First Friends of New Jersey and New York” and other faith and activist organizations began participating in regular vigils and support activities.
The first major direct-action protest occurred on May 14, 2025, when clergy associated with Faith in New Jersey and several Unitarian Universalist congregations blocked the facility’s main entrance.
By the fall of 2025, multiple organizations had established an ongoing presence around the detention center.
The movement surrounding Delaney Hall largely operates through three overlapping coalitions.
The first, “Eyes on ICE NJ,” grew from the daily vigils outside the facility. Its members focus on monitoring activity at the detention center, supporting visiting families, documenting conditions and maintaining a public presence outside the gates, engaging in narrative warfare, sharing family stories with the media, putting family members in front of microphones and giving lawmakers the constituent case studies to bolster their arguments with federal officials.
The second, “ICE Out of NJ,” functions as a broader mobilization and legislative campaign. It brings together immigrant-rights organizations, rapid-response networks, labor-aligned groups and direct-action activists to oppose detention expansion and immigration enforcement policies.
The third, New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, functions as a coalition umbrella linking about 59 member organizations across the state. Its membership includes legal advocacy organizations, labor allies, immigrant-rights groups, faith-based organizations and community organizing networks.
The result is a division of labor: one coalition specializes in observation, media outreach, community support and personal narratives, while the other concentrates on mobilization, political pressure and statewide organizing, and the other focuses on the immigration issue.
Understanding the power of the Delaney Hall network requires following the nonprofit funding streams that sustain many of its major participants, including big Democratic donors like Open Society Foundations and NEO Philanthropies, that act as a source of support for some of the network’s influential participants.
People are wearing hard hats, goggles and respirators near a protest site outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 30, 2026. (Fox News Digital / Michael Dorgan)During the Delaney Hall controversy, elected officials including Democratic Sen. Andy Kim, Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Rep. Rob Menendez and others have become highly visible participants in the debate. But the protesters have also turned on them, with Indivisible organizing a protest at Sherrill’s office on Monday and Democratic Socialists of America demonstrating outside the offices of New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport on Tuesday.
While Fox News Digital has been able to compile the list of organizations that make up the Delaney Hall 100, most of the network’s work remains secretive.
“Most everything is concealed from the ground up to their identities in Signal chat rooms, their funding and names of the people on the streets and their leaders,” said Flint, the nonprofit expert. “They know what they are doing is wrong. They don’t want you to know who is in charge. They have masks on. They don’t want you to know anything about their organizations, their people. They are flipping the rules. They shout to the ICE agents: ‘You all are wearing masks.’ Meanwhile, they are wearing masks.”
“They use nonprofit status as a sword and a shield,” said Flint. “They use it to take advantage of all the rules and then when they get in trouble they use it to protect themselves.”
That tension has emerged in recent days as the protests have turned violent with more radical elements of the Delaney Hall 100 emerging with makeshift shields and swords.
By 4:31 p.m., an anonymous Signal user, using the “sqeek” moniker, shared a “MEDIC DONATIONS” list that experts said resembled one that would be prepared for a military operation, often identified by the manufacturer and brand type, including: “3M 8246 respirators,” six “Gas mask filters,” “3M 60923,” “Goggles — shatterproof, without vents or foam edges (ANSI 87.1 or MIL-PREF 32432).”
“Sqeek” punctuated the message with the emoji of a muscular flexed arm.
On cue, agitators, many of them far-left white protesters clad in the black-and-white checkered Palestinian scarf called a keffiyeh, started trickling onto Doremus Avenue in front of Delaney Hall around 8 p.m. last night, sharing their commuting and parking woes in their Signal chat.
At 9:42 p.m., one agitator, behind barriers, shouted, “This is what counterinsurgency looks like!”
And then, at 9:47 p.m., as if reading off the communications strategy script, directing the groups to call Delaney Hall a “concentration camp,” another protester yelled at the mostly minority Newark police officers and the other law enforcement authorities, her voice breaking: “You work for a concentration camp! You work for a concentration camp! Quit your job!”
“Kill yourself!” a man added, as the group broke into a chant, “Quit your job! Quit your job!”
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