Arms Exporter Gets 10 Years

Arms dealer Arif A. Durrani was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison and fined $2 million for illegally exporting Hawk missile parts to Iran.

U.S. District Judge T. F. Gilroy Daly told Durrani, a Pakistani national who lived in Westlake Village, Calif., that his testimony was riddled with “greed, lies, money, perjury, avarice and conniving.”

“Your behavior might, under other circumstances, be considered by others as bordering on treason,” Daly told Durrani, who refused to comment. Durrani’s lawyer said he would appeal.

‘No Excuse for Lying’

“Whatever happens in Washington is and was no excuse for your lying repeatedly under oath,” Daly said, referring to the Iran arms affair involving the Reagan Administration.

Durrani, 38, had admitted shipping the missile parts but contended that he was acting on behalf of the U.S. government in its efforts to obtain the release of American hostages in Lebanon. He claimed also to have met once with former National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver L. North to discuss how to obtain and ship the parts.

Prosecutors said Durrani arranged for 11 shipments of the missile parts to Iran between June and September, 1986.

Durrani was sentenced to five years each on two counts of exporting weapons without a license, with the terms to run consecutively, and was fined $1 million on the two counts.

He was also sentenced to 10 years in prison on one count of exporting without a registration, to be served concurrently with his other term. He was fined $1 million on that count.