(NY Post) Four Iranian intelligence operatives schemed to kidnap a Brooklyn-based journalist and smuggle her to Iran in a bid to silence her criticism of human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic, federal authorities said Tuesday.
In an interview with the Post, writer and activist Masih Alinejad acknowledged she was the target, and she did the same in a series of tweets.
A source familiar with the matter also confirmed Alinejad was the target.
Manhattan US Attorney Audrey Strauss, who didn’t identify Alinejad by name, said she would have faced a fate that’s “uncertain at best” if the plan hadn’t been foiled by the FBI.
On Monday night, Alinejad told the Post that she was approached eight months ago by about a dozen FBI agents who alerted her to the plot and later put her family up in three safe houses across New York.
