Iranian intelligence agents plotted brazen abduction of Brooklyn dissident journalist

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

U.S. prosecutors say

Iranian intelligence agents plotted to abduct an Iranian American journalist living in Brooklyn and take her to the Middle Eastern country, possibly via a daring maritime evacuation, the Justice Department alleged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Four Iranians were charged in federal court in Manhattan with conspiring to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an exiled journalist and women’s rights activist who has long been critical of the regime in Tehran. Alinejad was not identified by prosecutors, but she confirmed on Twitter that she was the intended target.

“I am grateful to FBI for foiling the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry’s plot to kidnap me. This plot was orchestrated under Rouhani,” she wrote on Tuesday, referring to outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Several exiled Iranian dissidents have recently disappeared under mysterious circumstances, although an abduction on U.S. soil would have been especially brazen. In her tweet, Alinejad referred to Ruhollah Zam, a journalist who lived in exile in France but was lured to Iraq in 2019; he was later executed. She also noted the case of Jamshid Sharmahd, a California-based member of an Iranian militant opposition group who was abducted last year while traveling abroad and is now in an Iranian prison.

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[msfiddlestix]

1. She's rather high profile figure and dissident.

very happy to hear the plot was foiled in her case. unfortunately others did not escape.

[Hortensis]

2. The kidnapping plan reportedly started last year, while tRump was in office,

though apparently they were trying to get their hands on her back in 2018.

Iran, and other nations that rushed to take advantage of our weakness under tRump, need to be made afraid to hunt people who've sought refuge in America.