Roslyn man pleads guilty in federal court to receiving child sex abuse videos, smuggling Iranian nationals into U.S.
- Sharon Gohari, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Roslyn, New York, pleaded guilty to smuggling Iranian nationals and others into the United States, including an individual linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.
- Between December 2020 and May 2025, Gohari operated a human smuggling ring charging thousands of dollars per client, facilitating travel routes primarily through Mexico and parts of Central and South America into the U.S..
- Federal agents found multiple videos depicting child sexual abuse material , including videos of child rape and secret recordings of women, some sent to Iran-based accounts, on Gohari's devices.
- Gohari faces up to 30 years in federal prison on charges including a mandatory minimum sentence for CSAM and alien smuggling offenses, with authorities highlighting the threat to national security.
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Iranian national pleads guilty in IRGC-linked smuggling case
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Sharon Gohari, an Iranian national, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday to unlawfully smuggling aliens into the United States and intentionally receiving child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Gohari, a naturalized United States citizen from Iran who resided in Roslyn, New York, in Nassau County, and traveled frequently to Iran, engaged in alien smuggling activities from at least December 2020 until his arrest in May 2025. According…
Iranian-American Pleads Guilty To Smuggling IRGC-Linked Operative Into U.S.
A naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran entered a guilty plea in federal court earlier today, admitting to running a sophisticated human smuggling operation that compromised national security and possessing graphic child sexual abuse material (CSAM). As the Department of Justice reported, Sharon Gohari, who split his time between Roslyn, New York, and Iran, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to charges of unlawfully smuggling…
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