US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (Image: GETTY)
The Justice Department claimed that between January 2012 and May 2015, Ms Witt worked with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after an “ideological” defection. They also claim she revealed the identity of several undercover US agents. Four Iranian co-defendants were also indicted, under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Ms Witt, who was in the Air Force from 1997 to 2008, was last seen in Asia in 2013.
According to court documents, the Justice Department has accused Ms Witt of working with people “to knowingly and unlawfully communicate, deliver, and transmit to a foreign government, specifically Iran, and to that foreign government’s representatives, officers, and agents, directly and indirectly, documents and information relating to the national defence of the United States, with the intent and reason to believe that the same would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of Iran."
US officials said Ms Witt went by the pseudonyms Fatemah Zahra and Narges Witt and that she has converted to Islam.
Ms Witt
