A stunning Iranian-backed plot to gun down a journalist in Brooklyn has been foiled, federal authorities say.
Federal prosecutors say an Iran-backed murder-for-hire plot sought to murder of a U.S. citizen who has been targeted for speaking out against Iran’s human rights abuses.
Their group has ties to Iran and is violent, engaging in murders, kidnappings, assaults, and extortions, and members typically identify themselves with tattoos and other displays of eight-pointed stars.The target was Brooklyn resident Mashih Alinejad, who is a journalist, author, and human rights advocate.
After Mehdiyev’s initial surveillance, Amirov and Omarov arranged for the delivery of a $30,000 cash payment to Mehdiyev in New York City to continue the plot. Mehdiyev used a portion of the cash to buy an AK-47-style assault rifle along with two magazines for ammunition and at least 66 rounds.
Amirov, Omarov and Mehdiyev schemed different strategies to attempt to draw Alinejad out, including by attempting to ask her for flowers from her garden. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. "This is the second time in the past two years that this office and our partners at the FBI have disrupted plots originating from within Iran to kidnap or kill this victim for the ‘crime’ of exercising the right to free speech, to independent political thought, and to advocating for the rights of the oppressed and disenfranchised inside Iran.
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