Nigerian court charges Iranian guard member

A court in Nigeria on Thursday charged a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and three Nigerians over a shipment of mortars and rockets seized in the main port of Lagos last month.

Azim Adhajani, identified in court documents as a Tehran-based businessman and member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was charged alongside a suspected Nigerian accomplice with the importation of prohibited firearms. The two men and a further two Nigerian suspects were also charged with conspiring to export the illegal shipment to Banjul, Gambia. (Reuters)