(NBC) Two Canadian members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang plotted with an Iranian drug trafficker to kill a pair of dissidents who were living in Maryland, the Justice Department and federal officials said Monday.
Naji Sharifi Zindashti, aka “Big Guy,” who has ties to Iran’s intelligence services, had been communicating with Damion Patrick John Ryan for a month about various “jobs” when, in January 2021, he brought up “a specific job in the United States,” according to a federal grand jury indictment.
Ryan, who was contacting Zindashti through an “encrypted communication service,” said that it would be “challenging” but that he “might have someone to do it,” the indictment says.
