By Joel Schectman
WASHINGTON – 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 U.S. 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 U.S. government-financed Voice of America’s Farsi edition, who had angered Iran through her pointed criticism of the country’s headcovering laws, according to U.S. prosecutors.
“I had goose bumps and was crying, but this is my fight,” Alinejad said in an interview this week, soon after learning that U.S. federal prosecutors had charged https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-iranian-nationals-with-kidnapping-2021-07-13 four Iranians with plotting to kidnap her. “I didn’t do anything but give a voice to people.”