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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-iranian-nationals-with-kidnapping-2021-07-13/
U.S. Charges Four with Plot to Kidnap New York Journalist Critical of Iran
(Reuters) Joel Schectman - U.S. prosecutors have charged four Iranian intelligence operatives with plotting to kidnap Iranian-American journalist and human rights activist Masih Alinejad, who is critical of Iran. The Iranian operatives hired private investigators in Manhattan to surveil Alinejad and her family. The four defendants planned "to forcibly take their intended victim to Iran, where the victim's fate would have been uncertain at best," said Audrey Strauss, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Alinejad said she had drawn the ire of Iran by publicizing women in Iran protesting laws requiring head coverings, as well as accounts of Iranians killed in demonstrations in 2019.