The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted an Iranian-backed drug lord and two Canadian nationals in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate an Iranian dissident residing in the United States.
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Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) The Justice Department on Monday indicted an Iranian man and two Canadian nationals in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme that targeted dissidents and critics of the Iranian regime.
According to a newly-unsealed indictment, prosecutors say Naji Zindashti conspired with two Canadian men between December 2020 and March 2021 in an unsuccessful plot to assassinate two residents of Maryland.
The intended victims of the plot, who at the time resided in Maryland, had previously fled to the United States after one of them defected from Iran, the DOJ said.
The three men allegedly used an encrypted messaging service and discussed logistics of how to carry out the murders, communicating cryptically about "jobs," "equipment," tools" and how to "make some money."
One of the Canadian men, Damion Ryan, allegedly wrote that carrying out a murder in the U.S. would be challenging but he "might have someone to do
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