Three alleged members of an Eastern European crime syndicate have been charged with what officials described as an Iran-backed plot to kill a journalist living in Brooklyn, the Justice Department said
WASHINGTON—Three alleged members of an Eastern European crime syndicate have been charged with what officials described as anliving in Brooklyn, the Justice Department said, citing the case as the latest example of the Islamic Republic’s efforts to silence its critics.
Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident and human-rights activist, has long been the target of Iran after she criticized the government’s human-rights abuses, discrimination against women and use of imprisonment and torture against political opponents.
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