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Masih Alinejad: Iranians ‘plotted to kidnap US, Canada and UK targets’

BBC News

July 14, 2021

Four Iranian intelligence officials have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist critical of Iran, US prosecutors say.

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.

Iran’s government said the allegations were “ridiculous and baseless”.

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