https://exclusive.iranintl.com/amir-barati-iranian-hacker-fbi-trap-en/index.html
"According to court records, open-source evidence and interviews conducted by Iran International, Barati spent years building a reputation as one of Iran's most capable hackers before, according to multiple sources, becoming an asset of the country's intelligence apparatus. He then appears to have reinvented himself through a new country, a new citizenship and a new identity.
None of it proved enough.."