Iran allegedly hired Canadians to conduct assassinations on U.S. soil, according to indictment

CBC News ^ | 29 January 2024 | Alexander Pannetta

[Candor7]

Two Canadians planned to conduct assassinations in the U.S. on behalf of Iran's intelligence services, according to allegations in a newly unsealed indictment.

The suspects are accused of plotting to shoot a man and woman living in Maryland, one of them a defector from Iran.

The charges unsealed Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice include details of the alleged plot, including the sum the would-be killers had charged for the job: $350,000 US.

News of the charges emerges at a time of acutely high tension with Iran, as the U.S. threatens retaliation after three U.S. military members were killed in an attack by an Iran-backed militia.

The indictment identifies one Canadian suspect as Damion Patrick John Ryan, a full-patch member of the Hells Angels criminal gang who allegedly assembled a team of gunmen in late 2020 and early 2021. He was allegedly working with another Canadian, Adam Richard Pearson, who was living illegally in Minnesota at the time.

They were hired by an accused Iranian drug-dealer who operates on the instructions of a certain officer with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, according to the U.S.

In a separate action Monday, the United States government announced financial sanctions against the network run by the alleged drug-dealer, Naji Ibrahim Sharifi-Zindashti.

American authorities say Zindashti is based in Iran and his criminal operation is given free rein by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security.

In exchange for state protection, they say, the criminal group carries out assassinations and kidnappings, on multiple continents, of dissidents and opponents of the Iranian regime; according to the U.S. Treasury Department, these operations were overseen by MOIS officer Reza Hamidiravari.

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"The Iranian regime's continued efforts to target dissidents and activists demonstrate the regime's deep insecurity and attempt to expand Iran's domestic repression internationally," said U.S. Treasury official Brian Nelson.

The charges do not identify the intended targets in Maryland. Authorities said the assassination plot against them was stopped before it could be carried out.

"Thanks to the skilled work of federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents, this murder-for-hire conspiracy was disrupted and the defendants will face justice," said U.S. prosecutor Andrew Luger, based in Minnesota.

As for the suspects, both are already in prison. Ryan is currently jailed in Canada on firearms charges and Pearson was arrested by the FBI in 2021 and extradited to Canada over a murder in Alberta five years ago.

They are now charged in the U.S. with one count of conspiracy to use interstate commerce facilities in a murder-for-hire plot, as is Zindashti.

The U.S. and the U.K. released, separately, on Monday sanctions lists of Iranian officials they linked to killings and plotted killing of dissidents and journalists in Turkey, the U.K., the U.S. and the Middle East.

Pearson also faces separate firearms charges.

The new allegations have not been proven in court.

[Candor7]

They paid em US $, not Canadian? The USD trades at 1.25 to 1.31 in Canada. BONUS ( sarc.)

[lucky american]

Doesn’t anyone question the timing of this arrest? I mean, after we’re increasing tension between the US and Iran.

[af_vet_1981]

"The Federal police agencies and the military have been deeply infiltrated by the enemies of America. Just look at the FBI's involvement in the Russiagate hoax and other efforts to topple Trump. Remember that Army Chief of Staff Milley refused to allow the military to suppress the George Floyd riots in Washington, DC. Milley also contacted his counterpart in the Chinese PLA and told him that he would let him know if the U.S. would engage in "kinetic action" against Red China.

The top ranks of the military and the Federal police agencies are enemies of America, as much as any official in Beijing, Moscow, or Tehran. Increasingly, these leaders are recruiting people with like ideologies."

Are you an enemy of the FBI, CIA, and DOD ?

I certainly am not.
Left wing nuts, right wing nuts, are both nuts (and potential traitors).

[af_vet_1981]

You are flying the flag of Canada so one can understand your feelings.

[Lucky2]

Is anyone surprised by this? Iran has been after us since Reagan.

[Wallace T.]

Supporting the Biden regime and its subservient military and police agencies is not a test of loyalty to America.

[ansel12]

That is what they are, an international crime ring.

[Candor7]

The Timing of the arrest is yuge.

No wonder Meritless Garland is having back surgery now.

JOhn Kerry is having fits that Iranians are actually implicated in assassination attempts in the USA, he likely helped arrange the assassination in Davos?

Why is Kerry having fits? The DNC have been stroking Iran in a maizma of wet dreams ever since Kerry's daughter married into an elite Iranian family..........and we must not pish off Dem Royalty in laws?

IN fact the foreign minister,implicated in this assassination plot was an honored guest at the Kerry wedding....Mohammad Javad Zarif...

And who is Naji Ibrahim Sharifi-Zindashti Zarif the drug dealer? a Zarif famly member? Was that drug dealer or one of his relatives in the Kerry wedding party that Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Mullahs in Iran?

YOu can't make this shite up. And it is really why Biden will not respond to Iran killing , maiming and wounding US soldiers.

THeir refusals to act are beginning to really look like the treason it is.

Biden looks more and more impeachable.

Biden does not act or look like a US President supporting the fact that he cheated to get elected.

Further Reading : Kerry’s Iranian Family Ties

[Reverend Wright]

“You are flying the flag of Canada so one can understand your feelings.”

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Globohomo is global, and a threat to the heritage populations of every Western country.

(Here is the FBI, providing false info to Trudeau about the truckers)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-police-fbi-1.6631670

Anyone simping for DOJ, FBI and CIA at this point has to be a Fed.

[af_vet_1981]

Mental illnes is global, and a threat to the heritage populations of every country.

Here is a thread on the actions of a paranoid mentally ill person who acted on some of the ideas expressed in this thread.

Man 'beheads his federal employee father' and posts video of decapitated head on YouTube while calling for 'revolution' against 'Biden regime' and to fight 'army of illegal immigrants': Police take him into custody

[Reverend Wright]

“Here is a thread on the actions of a paranoid mentally ill person who acted on some of the ideas expressed in this thread.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4214014/posts

“Man ‘beheads his federal employee father’ and posts video of decapitated head on YouTube while calling for ‘revolution’ against ‘Biden regime’ and to fight ‘army of illegal immigrants’: Police take him into custody”

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Wow !

I’m so surprised that a Deep State Shill and cheerleader is using Leftist smears against conservatives !