Members of Iran's business elite don't usually open up to the BBC, especially when they're accused of sanctions busting, but I was offered a rare chance to interview him on a visit to Central Asia.
George Vanizelos, assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York Office, said that after FBI agents then accusedhim of lying, "His best defense was 'not everything I told you was false, '" Mr. Vanizelos said.