ICE & HSI STORM 9 Shell Firms — $340M Iran Oil Evasion Network EXPOSED

ICE & HSI dismantled 9 Iranian-linked shell firms running $340M in sanctioned crude oil through Houston, Dallas, and Miami. Inside a 4-month undercover operation that produced 37 hours of recorded evidence — and what prosecutors called the most sophisticated sanctions-evasion case ever built on U.S. soil. June 2026 | Operation Paper Harbor | Iran sanctions, HSI Financial Crimes, Port of Houston CBP anomaly that broke it open. The scheme ran since November 2025 — nine legitimate-looking import consultancies hiding a shadow logistics pipeline for Iranian crude. One container manifest flagged by a CBP officer at Port of Houston triggered a joint HSI-ICE investigation spanning seven jurisdictions. Undercover agents posed as Dubai commodity brokers and recorded executives agreeing to reroute shipments through a Malaysian front. On June 16, 2026, seventy-six federal agents executed simultaneous warrants across all three cities. Twenty-three arrests. $78 million in domestic accounts frozen within 48 hours. The network's architect, Tariq Saleem, departed the U.S. two days before the raid and has not been found.