Reza Olangian, of Los Gatos, Calif., was charged in federal court in New York with trying to buy surface-to-air missiles for Iran. The dual US-Iranian citizen was arrested in Estonia a year ago and extradited to the US in March. The White House is urging Congress to refrain from imposing new sanctions on Iran. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said operatives behind the September 2012 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi had ties to core al Qaeda leadership. The NSA website went down; NSA denied that the outage was due to a cyberattack.
