US charges 3 in plot to kill Iranian-American author in NYC

""This activity posed such a threat to the government of Iran that the chief judge of Iran´s Revolutionary courts warned that anyone who sent videos to the victim criticizing the regime would be sentenced to prison.""

""The government of Iran has previously targeted dissidents around the world, including the victim, who oppose the regime´s violations of human rights," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in announcing the charges."

"(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)"The victim publicized the Iranian government´s human rights abuses, discriminatory treatment of women, suppression of democratic participation and expression and use of arbitrary imprisonment, torture and execution," Garland said."

"He said "individuals in Iran" had tasked the defendants with carrying out the plot to kill the activist."

"The men, Rafat Amirov, 43, of Iran, Polad Omarov, 38, of the Czech Republic and Slovenia and Khalid Mehdiyev, 24, of Yonkers, New York, were charged with money laundering and murder-for-hire in a superseding indictment unsealed in federal court in New York."

"Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, to discuss recent law enforcement action in transnational security threats case."

"All three defendants are natives of Azerbaijan, which shares a border and cultural ties with Iran."

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