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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that three people have been arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder targeting an Iranian-American journalist and human rights activist.
The same victim, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, was the target of an earlier kidnapping plot. Four people with ties to Iranian intelligence were indicted in 2021 for that plan.
Masih Alinejad, an exiled Iranian journalist, identified himself as the target of a 2021 kidnapping plot. Alinejad did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
But in a tweet, he wrote, “I just learned from 12 FBI agents that 3 people hired by the Iranian regime to kill me on US soil have been indicted.”
He wrote, “The Islamic Revolutionary Guards have been carrying out these terroristic operations for four decades. With the Islamic Republic oil is ISIS.”
Iranian-American journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad during a session at the Congress Center during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on January 19, 2023.
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The latest plot began in 2022, when members of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran were enlisted to murder the victim, according to an indictment that does not identify the victim by name.
That group’s participation in the plot was directed by an individual named Rafat Amirov, the group’s leader, who resides in Iran and “who was tasked to target the victim by individuals in Iran,” according to the indictment, whom was unheard of in US District Court. in Manhattan.
Amirov, whose crime organization is known as “thieves-in-law”, was taken into custody in New York on Thursday.
Charged with him were Czech Republican resident Polad Omarov, who was arrested there in early January, and Khalid Mediyev, who lives in Yonkers, New York. Officials said Mediyev was arrested last July.
The indictment states that Amirov directed Omarov, who is a member of the crime group, in the plot to kill the journalist.
The charge states that Omarov instructed Mehdiyev to “conspire against the victim”.
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