Posted on 07/14/2021 7:42:14 AM PDT by DFG
New York City prosecutors have charged four Iranian spies with plotting to kidnap a U.S. journalist from Brooklyn, smuggling her out of the city on a speedboat then sailing down to Venezuela before flying to Tehran, after she criticized the regime for its human rights abuses.
Masih Alinejad, 44, a producer with Voice of America, told NBC News that she was the target of the plot. She was not named in court documents.
The conspirators, described as intelligence officials, had also plotted to lure a person in the UK and three others in Canada to Iran, an indictment said. They had all also been critical of Iran.
William F. Sweeney Jr., the head of the F.B.I.'s New York office, said: 'This is not some far-fetched movie plot. We allege a group, backed by the Iranian government, conspired to kidnap a US-based journalist here on our soil and forcibly return her to Iran. Not on our watch.'
A federal indictment describes a plot that included attempts to lure Alinejad to Venezuela to capture her, and forcibly render her to Iran. The Iranians had a live feed of her home.
The Iranians researched how to get the author out of New York, according to the charging documents. One of the four researched a service offering 'military-style speedboats for self-operated maritime evacuation out of New York City, and maritime travel from New York to Venezuela, a country whose de facto government has friendly relations with Iran,' the Justice Department said.
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I’m just surprised the FBI didn’t assist Iran in kidnapping her.
This is on FOX right now. Literally. Did that inspire the article post?
I switched from cable TV to Roku last November and I have not watched Faux News since.
So they captured the conspirators, or are they expecting Iran to extradite them? Sounds like Muellers worthless Russian indictments.
What kinda speedboat ?
never mind read the article im still curious
A refuel able kind.
Satellite. I don’t drop and cancel people or networks based on one perceived slight. That is what commie Dems do.
Nothing like an elaborate plan with many points-of-failure. They could take some notes from NKVD and their ops in the US in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s.
They Iranians probably tried to stifc the FBI on the agreed amount of $$$.
The usual FBI stuff. Blather and no arrest or convictions for spying:
The indictment did not name the target, but Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American author and activist, says it was her.
The conspirators, who all live in Iran and remain at large, also allegedly plotted to lure a person in the UK and three others in Canada to Iran.
Meh
“I’m just surprised the FBI didn’t assist Iran in kidnapping her.”
Elian Gonzalez-style.
“I switched from cable TV to Roku last November and I have not watched Faux News since.”
We switch to a Roku in 2008 and not regretting it at all.
You mean in giving her a surprise vacation to Iran, to see dungeons in ancient castles and learn how modern they’ve become, using only state-of-the-art cattle prods?
As this regime doesn’t give a rats *** about international law we need not do so either. Time to radiate the mullahs.
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