Meanwhile, they were sitting down with Biden’s handlers to demand the end of sanctions. The mullahs know that there is nothing they can do that will make Biden’s handlers not want to give them everything they want.
“Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say,” by Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, July 13, 2021:
An Iranian American journalist living in Brooklyn was the target of an international kidnapping plot orchestrated by an Iranian intelligence network, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
In an indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan, four Iranians were charged with conspiring to kidnap the journalist and author, Masih Alinejad, who has long been a staunch critic of the Iranian government.
Ms. Alinejad was not identified by prosecutors, but confirmed in an interview that she was the intended target of the plot. Last year, Ms. Alinejad wrote in a newspaper article that Iranian government officials had unleashed a social media campaign calling for her abduction.
The four defendants all live in Iran, the prosecutors said, identifying one of them, Alireza Shavaroghi Farahani, as an Iranian intelligence official and the three others as “Iranian intelligence assets.” A fifth defendant, accused of supporting the plot but not participating in the kidnapping conspiracy, was arrested in California.
A federal indictment describes a plot that included attempts to lure Ms. Alinejad to a third country to capture her and forcibly render her to Iran. The intelligence official, Mr. Farahani, and his network used private investigators to surveil, photograph and video record Ms. Alinejad and members of her household in Brooklyn, the government said.
The extensive surveillance that Mr. Farahani’s network procured included the use of a live, high-definition video feed depicting Ms. Alinejad’s home, prosecutors said.
“This is not some far-fetched movie plot,” William F. Sweeney Jr., the head of the F.B.I.’s New York office, said in a statement.
In a 2018 essay in The New York Times, Ms. Alinejad described her decision to leave Iran a decade earlier.
“As a journalist in Iran, I often got into trouble exposing the regime’s mismanagement and corruption until, eventually, my press pass was revoked,” she wrote. “I was often threatened with arrest or worse for writing articles critical of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ultimately, I was forced to flee my homeland in 2009.”…
mortimer says
Bribed-man no doubt secretly admires what the Iranians can do to shut down freedom of expression. The DEMENTIA-crat (led by Joe-mentia) is trying their best to use BIG TECH to censor people so the Dementia-crats don’t look like the censoring Fascists they actually are.
PRCS says
I didn’t know Masih Alinejad was the target when I first heard the news but suspected she was.
Good thing the plan failed.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran sent goons to kidnap Iranian freedom activist in NYC and take her back to Iran
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Just horrifying–glad this attempt failed.
Is this going to change Biden’s pandering to the thuggish Mullahs? I wouldn’t count on it…
IanB says
Sign her up at Jihadwatch.
She will have telling insights.
Additional benefit – it will enrage the Mad Mullahs in Iran.
roberta says
On U.S. soil! Its like they smell weakness.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Roberta.
OLD GUY says
Goes to show you can’t trust your enemies. Islam supports deception as well as violence and murder to accomplish its agenda of world domination. Unfortunately our politicians in general think they can talk or buy our enemies off, won’t ever happen. Islam sees our diplomatic and foreign aid gifts as a sign of weakness and will continue the attacks.
nathan hale says
Not with john kerry and his son in law who profits from all deals since kerry was viotaing LOGAN ACT laws when he constantly went there
gravenimage says
Masih Alinejad is a *very* brave woman.
Note that “Masih” is a name used by Christians–it derives from “messiah”.