The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against four Iranian intelligence agents and a co-conspirator living in the US who allegedly plotted to kidnap a journalist and human rights activist from Brooklyn for criticizing their country's regime.
Court documents quoted by NBC News allege that Alireza Shavaroghi Farahani, 50, Mahmoud Khazein, 42; Kiya Sadeghi, 35; and Omid Noori, 45, are accused of conspiring to kidnap and bring the victim to Iran after the individual had been working to sway public opinion both in the country and globally to change the current regime's laws and practices.
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