Iranian Official Charged in Plot to Kidnap U.S. Journalist
- Brooklyn-based journalist was under surveillance, U.S. says
- California woman arrested for providing aid in kidnapping plot
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An Iranian intelligence official and three others were charged with conspiring to kidnap an Iranian-born U.S. citizen who has been a sharp critic of her birth country’s repressive government.
Masih Alinejad, a journalist, author and activist, was the target of a plot to force her to return to Iran as part of a scheme by its government to silence critics living overseas, prosecutors in New York charged in an indictment made public on Tuesday. Alinejad, who lives in Brooklyn, wasn’t named in court papers, but she identified herself in a Twitter post later.