Men with ties to Iran and Pakistan arrested for impersonating feds

 Fox News:

Washington D.C. men who allegedly posed as federal agents had stockpile of weapons, new filing shows 
The two men were both arrested on Wednesday at a luxury apartment in the Navy Yard area of Washington, D.C during a multi-federal government agency raid of several units
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Additionally, law enforcement agents recovered "numerous electronic devices," including a "significant" amount of surveillance equipment, 30 hard drives, hard drive copying equipment, a server which contained "six modules," as well as a machine that creates and programs Personal Identification Verification cards, and blank cards with chips.

Passports belonging to Ali were also recovered, and show two visas from Iran. Prosecutors say that the first visa authorized travel to Iran from July 31, 2019 through October 28, 2019, and the second from October 28, 2019 through January 25, 2020.

The passports also contain visas from Pakistan.

Tactical gear and other law enforcement equipment was found, including clothing with police signage, police parking signs, a fingerprint kit, and equipment for knocking down a door such as a sledgehammer and lock picking kit.

Immigration documents for "a number of individuals" were also found, as well as "a box of documents with profiles of individual people."

One document found is an invoice for a Chevrolet Impala belonging to the defendants'; the listed customers' information states "Secret Service US," and shows fake names.
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During a voluntary interview after Taherzadeh was arrested he admitted to falsely identifying himself as a Department of Homeland Security member as well as a former United States Army Ranger. He also said that he provided free apartments to two Secret Service agents for one year, in addition to providing multiple other gifts to members of the Secret Service.
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A separate Secret Service agent who is now suspended was assigned to the Presidential Protective Division of First lady Jill Biden, and sources tell Fox News that it's possible this agent filled in for agents close to President Biden at times but was not on the president's regular security detail.
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There is much more.  One of the agents also may have worked on the detail with VP Harris.  It will be interesting to see what the ties of the two are to Iran.

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