The US Justice Department announced the indictment Friday of three members of a European criminal gang who allegedly undertook a Tehran-backed plot to assassinate dissident Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad. The Justice Department said one of the three, Rafat Amirov, a leader of the unnamed gang who lives in Iran, directed the plot last year to kill Alinejad at her home in New York.
The Justice Department has charged three men as part of an Iran-backed plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses, officials said Friday.
The authorities did not name the target of the assassination plot, but it is believed to be journalist and activist Masih Alinejad, who is known for her criticism of the Iranian regime.
Iranian, Slovenian and American indicted for money laundering and murder-for-hire of Masih Alinejad; the three men are in custody and one is awaiting extradition to the US
Department of Justice alleges Iran assassination plot against U.S. journalist Masih Alinejad after three Eastern European criminals indicted in New York.