A man was sentenced Monday to three years and five months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to buy submachine guns and sell them to Iranian government officials, BBC radio reported on March 11, 2008.

Mustafa Maghloubi’s plan, if executed, would have destabilized an “area of the world that has suffered enough from continuing upheaval,” U.S. District Judge George King said as he handed down the sentence.

“These were very dangerous actions,” Judge King said.
According to the plea deal, a person he approached about buying the equipment brokered a meeting between him and a Los Angeles police detective Maghloubi thought was an arms dealer.

He planed to buy 100,000 Uzis and night-vision goggles and ship them to Iran for Iranian regime.