The Islamic Republic of Iran was pursuing these plots to murder Alinejad while Biden’s handlers were pursuing efforts to appease and finance the Islamic regime in Iran. What’s wrong with this picture?
“Justice Department announces new arrests in plot to kill New York-based journalist directed from Iran,” by CNN, January 27, 2023:
and ,The Justice Department announced new arrests Friday in a plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government.
The three men charged, who are allegedly part of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran, are facing murder-for-hire and money laundering charges for plotting to kill journalist Masih Alinejad.
All three of the defendants, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday, are currently in custody.
“Today’s indictment exposes a dangerous menace to national security – a double threat posed by a vicious transnational crime group operating from what it thought was the safe haven of a rogue nation. That rogue nation is the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said at a news conference unveiling the charges.
Alinejad vowed to continue her activism in a video statement released Friday shortly after the department announced the charges: “Let me make it clear: I’m not scared for my life.”
“I’m going to continue giving voice to brave Iranian leaders, women, men, inside Iran who are trying to save the rest of the world from one of the most dangerous virus(es), which is called Islamic Republic,” she said. “If we don’t take a strong action right now, we will face these terrorists on US soil more and more.”
One of the three men had been arrested this past summer in the Brooklyn neighborhood where Alinejad lives. At the time, he was charged with possessing a firearm after police found in the back seat of his vehicle a suitcase containing a “Norinco AK-47-style assault rifle … loaded with a round in the chamber and a magazine attached, along with a separate second magazine, and a total of approximately 66 rounds of ammunition,” according to a complaint.
The DOJ said in a statement Friday that since at least July, the three men have been “tasked with carrying out” the murder of Alinejad, “who previously has been the target of plots by the government of Iran to intimidate, harass and kidnap” her.
“As recently as 2020 and 2021, Iranian intelligence officials and assets plotted to kidnap the (Alinejad) from within the United States for rendition to Iran in an effort to silence the (Alinejad’s) criticism of the regime,” the department said in a statement….
John ..Smith says
This isn’t their first attempt to get at this brave young lady. In 2019 she sued the Iranian government (in a US court) for harassment against her and her family. This to the mullahs was like a red rag to a bull, so they were out to get her. Then two years later, US prosecutors charged four Iranian officials with plotting to kidnap a critic of the Iranian government. Though the intended target wasn’t named, Masih and many others know it was her.
John ..Smith says
Sorry I didn’t realise it mentioned the kidnapping plot in the last paragraph here.
OLD GUY says
Iranian leadership is just plain EVIL.