Biden’s handlers have emboldened the mullahs. Expect more of this.
An update on this story. “Masih Alinejad: How Iran threatened and attempted to kidnap a US journalist,” Reuters, July 15, 2021:
The image on the alleged Iranian intelligence operative’s device was chilling: A graphic showing photos of two Iranian dissidents captured overseas. Next to them was a picture of a journalist US prosecutors say he intended to kidnap and the caption “are you coming or should we come for you?”
The intended target was Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad, a contributor to US government-financed Voice of America’s Farsi edition, who had angered Iran through her pointed criticism of the country’s head-covering laws, according to US prosecutors….
The image, which prosecutors said was seized in an electronic device and captioned in Farsi, was revealed in unsealed court papers.
US authorities say the plot is part of an escalating effort by the Islamic Republic to harass, surveil and kidnap Iranian activists overseas.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed the kidnapping allegations as “baseless and ridiculous.” But Tehran has said over the past two years it would amp up its overseas intelligence operations in response to US sanctions and military actions, like the killing of General Qassem Soleimani.
The four Iranians charged in the case hired private detectives in Manhattan to surveil Alinejad and her family. The Iranian intelligence operatives were trying to figure out how to spirit Alinejad out of New York by boat to South America, US authorities said.
Intensifying operations
The same network of Iranian intelligence operatives targeted at least four other activists in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, hiring local private investigators to photograph entrances to homes, follow family members and monitor their contacts, prosecutors said….
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran hired private detectives in NYC to surveil Iranian dissident and allow for her kidnapping
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Yes–this is terrifying. So glad this plot was foiled.
Note that this likely will not slow Biden’s love-fest with the bloody Mullahs, though.
Jerry says
Masih Alinejad is a Christian Name.
May God Bless and Save her.
gravenimage says
You are right, Jerry. I mentioned just this myself on another thread. Her being a Christian living in freedom is another reason Iran is targeting her.
mortimer says
The Bribed-man’s handlers who are all close to Barack Obama (potentially a secret Muslim) are certainly in cahoots with mullahocracy and the Muslim Brotherhood. They are so soft on both, that an intimate collusion seem to be extremely likely. The notorious ‘Lurch’ John Kerry with close connections within Iran is an example of the problem.
Behind the whole thing is the shadowy Obama, who unlike other presidents did not retire outside Washington, but who also admitted he would enjoy having a third term with a ‘front man’ implementing his ideas. Is Islam-enabler Obama really the one in charge?
The Bribed-man handlers are the anti-American, globalist TRAITOR CLASS.
Infidel says
So private detectives allow/enable the abduction of people outside US law? Doesn’t Iran have their own version of Duane “the Dog” Chapman to do such work for them?
gravenimage says
This private3 detective may or may not have known what his employers intended to do. Likely he was just hired for surveillance.
Walter Sieruk says
That ” mullah tyranny ” of Iran is , truly, a despicable criminal terrorist regime . It is an abomination and affront to everything that is good decent and right.