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As part of ongoing sanctions combating human rights abuses associated with Iran\u2019s regime, the State Department released on Tuesday the updated list of individuals and entities designated under the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 and subsequent executive orders. Woman Pleads Guilty to Smuggling U.S. Tech to Iran\u2019s Regime An Iranian woman in Minnesota on Friday pleaded guilty to charges that she stole technology from United States-based companies -- tech that was then exported to Iran through a fake company in violation of U.S. law and international sanctions on the regime. Negar Ghodskani and others established a front company in Malaysia to illegally obtain restricted technology from companies in Minnesota and Massachusetts, federal prosecutors said. Ghodskani was indicted in 2015 in Minnesota and arrested two years later in Australia, becoming the subject of a long extradition fight. Designated Head of Europe-Iran Trade Entity Resigns In a new development which may complicate the Iranian regime\u2019s relations with the European signatories of the 2015 nuclear agreement, a former senior German diplomat designated to head a mechanism to facilitate trade with Tehran has resigned. France, Germany and the United Kingdom set up the Instrument for Trade Exchanges known as INSTEX in January to satisfy the Iranian regime\u2019s demands for a way to bypass U.S. sanctions. Bernard Erbal was selected to head the body, which has not started functioning yet. Erbel, who was a German ambassador in Tehran, has resigned apparently for giving interviews to a German-language YouTube channel in which he described the regime\u2019s missile program as legal. Iranian Student Activist Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison The regime\u2019s Appeals Court in Tehran Province upheld the conviction of student activist Sina Darvish Omran. 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