Exports to Iran Bring 30 Months for Encino Man

An Encino businessman convicted of selling U. S. military radio parts to Iran in violation of federal export-control laws was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison and five years’ probation.

Hassan Kangarloo, 27, was convicted by a jury in September of two counts of conspiring to violate the U. S. Arms Control Act for shipping about $100,000 worth of military radio parts to Iran in August of last year. The conviction carried a maximum sentence of 13 years in prison.

Assistant U. S. Atty. Jeffrey Modisett, who prosecuted Kangarloo, asked U. S. District Court Judge Stephen V. Wilson to sentence Kangarloo to 10 years in prison.

Wilson mentioned Kangarloo’s age and lack of a criminal record in passing the sentence.

Although the government could only prove that Kangarloo exported $100,000 worth of parts for military radios to his homeland, transcripts of taped conversations on file in U. S. District Court in Los Angeles quote Kangarloo as boasting that he exported $81 million in U. S. military hardware to Iran from 1981 to 1984. Modisett said the hardware included M-60 tank parts, reconnaissance cameras and jet-aircraft parts.

Kangarloo testified at his trial that he was unaware that export licenses were required to ship arms to Iran.