The US accuses Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of threatening journalists – Millennium Group

A high command of the Iranian Revolutionary Guardthe Persian country’s elite military corps, and three other men were accused by the government of USA of participating in a plot to assassinate an activist in this country and Iranian-American journalist of human rights, who lives in New York, according to the New York Times.

The media also indicates that the plot to assassinate Masih Alinejad, who was dismantled by the United Stateshas already given rise to murder charges commissioned against members of an organization Eastern Europe with ties to Iran.

Alinejad denounced in an article in 2020 that the government of iran He had called for his kidnapping through a social media campaign.

These are the first direct charges against a senior Revolutionary Guard official for his role in the plot and identified in the indictment as Ruhollah Bazghandiwho has not been arrested, a brigadier general whom the United States Department of the Treasury considers a counterintelligence official, the newspaper notes.

Journalist Masih Alinejad left Iran after threats

Alinejad, that left Iran in 2009he pointed out before the prosecutionn that “the Iranian regime always uses criminal gangs to do its dirty work beyond its own borders, to evade punishment, to evade accountability”.

He indicated that the charges show the participation of the Guard in the plot and considers “very significant” that there is now evidence that members of the Guard The highest-ranking officials were in Iran and “ordered a man in New York to kill an American citizen.”

The activist added that she is now “more determined to give a voice to the Iranian people, especially womenwho actually face the same murderers within their country.”

This is how Masih Alinejad shared it:

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