The Justice Department has charged three men in an alleged plot that originated in Iran to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses there, officials said Friday.
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She said FBI officials had read her the messages that the plotters exchanged between themselves, including a final one: “It’s going to be done today.” Mehdiyev was arrested last year after he was found driving around Masih’s Brooklyn neighborhood with a loaded “AK-47-style” rifle and dozens of rounds of ammunition. Alinejad told The Associated Press at the time that authorities told her the man was looking for her, and that a home security video had caught him skulking outside her front door.
In 2021, an Iranian intelligence official and three others were charged with plotting to kidnap the victim, he said.Amirov made his initial court appearance in New York and attorney Michael Martin entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. The defense didn’t immediately ask for bail in the brief court appearance. Amirov used a Russian interpreter since he speaks it, though it isn’t his first language.
“The Iranian government’s efforts to silence its critics aren’t confined to the borders of Iran,” Wray said. Alinejad, who worked for years as a journalist in Iran, long has been targeted by its theocracy after fleeing the country following its disputed 2009 presidential election and crackdown.
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