Considering Iran has been in the news for weeks, look at this one.
When researching about sleeper cells in America, I discovered a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement news release about an Iranian national named Behkam Bahadorani.
He was busted on June 11 in Tulsa, Okla.
Tulsa is less than 100 miles from the Arkansas stateline. Bahadorani's criminal history includes "multiple convictions of child sex abuse, lewd molestation, rape in the second degree, and lewd proposals to a minor."
The new release with a Dallas dateline begins: "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a joint operation by the field offices of Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement Removal Operations Tulsa, arrested Behkam Bahadorani, a 65-year-old citizen of Iran, June 11, adjacent to an apartment complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma."
No media that I can find covered this story at all. When you search Behkam Bahadorani's name in a Google "News" search, you only find this.
Where was Oklahoma media? Where was any media on this considering his ties to Iran? Firget nationality, just look at his crimes?
How can people even know what is happening if media does not report it?
Is it because ICE – a media-portrayed controversial government agency, to say the least, is involved?
Or is media just asleep at the wheel?
I decided to investigate Bahadorani since no one else seemingly has.
According to the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registry, Bahadorani was born in 1960. It's not clear where he was born.
In 2015, he registered as a sex offender.
He has scars on his forehead, back, right arm and abdomen.
In 2006, he was charged with "procure, produce, distribute or possess child pornography"; "lewd or indecent proposals/acts to child" and "abuse or neglect if child/child beating (if offense involved sexual abuse or exploitation)".
A man with his name and birth date was charged in 1988 in Tulsa with assault and or battery with a dangerous weapon. That man may have received three to four years of jail time.
His list of employment is a café in Tulsa. That restaurant has a children's menu listed on its website.
It's unclear if Bahadorani is still in the United States. In the June 12 ICE release, it stated there was a "final order of removal". Bahadorani was in ICE custody pending removal.
“This criminal alien and registered sex offender, represents the worst of the worst, clearly reflective of those that have no place in our communities,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Dallas acting Field Office Director Josh Johnson.
Again, where was the media on this story? Apparently MIA.
