IRGC
United States v. Masoud Jalili and 2 others
Status: Masoud Jalili: Charged, September 27, 2024; Seyyed Ali Aghamiri: Charged, September 27, 2024; Yaser Balaghi: Charged, September 27, 2024
- District
- District of Columbia
- Docket number
- Not matched
- Group named in DOJ releases
- IRGC
- Statutes
- 18 U.S.C. § 2339B
- First DOJ release
- September 27, 2024
Primary Sources
- Three IRGC Cyber Actors Indicted for ‘Hack-and-Leak’ Operation Designed to Influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, Office of Public Affairs, September 27, 2024 (also issued by U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia)
Status and dates follow these DOJ releases. Docket details from CourtListener (RECAP).
Masoud Jalili
- Status
- Charged (DOJ release, September 27, 2024)
- From the DOJ release:
As alleged in the indictment, beginning in or around January 2020, Jalili, Aghamiri, and Balaghi, working on behalf of the IRGC, commenced a wide-ranging hacking campaign that used spearphishing and social engineering techniques to target and compromise victims computers and accounts.
- Age
- 36 (per DOJ release of September 27, 2024)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (IRGC), conspiracy to commit identity theft, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, unauthorized access to computers to obtain information from a protected computer, unauthorized access to computers to defraud and obtain a thing of value, and wire fraud
- Charged or arrested
- September 27, 2024
- Custody
- DOJ describes the defendant as at large
Seyyed Ali Aghamiri
- Status
- Charged (DOJ release, September 27, 2024)
- From the DOJ release:
As alleged in the indictment, beginning in or around January 2020, Jalili, Aghamiri, and Balaghi, working on behalf of the IRGC, commenced a wide-ranging hacking campaign that used spearphishing and social engineering techniques to target and compromise victims computers and accounts.
- Age
- 34 (per DOJ release of September 27, 2024)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (IRGC), conspiracy to commit identity theft, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, unauthorized access to computers to obtain information from a protected computer, unauthorized access to computers to defraud and obtain a thing of value, and wire fraud
- Charged or arrested
- September 27, 2024
- Custody
- DOJ describes the defendant as at large
Yaser Balaghi
- Status
- Charged (DOJ release, September 27, 2024)
- From the DOJ release:
As alleged in the indictment, beginning in or around January 2020, Jalili, Aghamiri, and Balaghi, working on behalf of the IRGC, commenced a wide-ranging hacking campaign that used spearphishing and social engineering techniques to target and compromise victims computers and accounts.
- Age
- 37 (per DOJ release of September 27, 2024)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (IRGC), conspiracy to commit identity theft, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, unauthorized access to computers to obtain information from a protected computer, unauthorized access to computers to defraud and obtain a thing of value, and wire fraud
- Charged or arrested
- September 27, 2024
- Custody
- DOJ describes the defendant as at large
Cite: Middle East Forum, Islamist Terrorism Prosecutions, "United States v. Masoud Jalili and 2 others," accessed October 13, 2026, https://cases.meforum.org/case/us-v-jalili-2024/