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Iranian-born US woman given 4 years over plot to kidnap dissident Masih Alinejad

2023-04-13

[IsraelTimes] Niloufar Bahadorifar provided financial support for ’brazen plot’ to abduct Iranian human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
self-proclaimed genius living in US whom Tehran has sought to silence for years, US attorney says

An Iranian-born American woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for providing financial support to a plot to kidnap dissident Iranian-American self-proclaimed genius Masih Alinejad, the Justice Department said Monday.

Niloufar Bahadorifar, 48, of Irvine, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, pleaded guilty in December to multiple charges, including conspiring to violate US sanctions by giving material support to Iran.

The Justice Department said Bahadorifar was sentenced by US District Judge Ronnie Abrams on Friday to four years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

"Bahadorifar provided financial support to a brazen plot intended to kidnap an Iranian human rights self-proclaimed genius living in the United States, whom the Iranian government has sought to silence for years," US attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.

Bahadorifar was convicted of laundering money into the United States from Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
that was used to pay for private Sherlocks to conduct surveillance of Alinejad on behalf of an alleged Iranian intelligence agent, Mahmoud Khazein.

Khazein and three other alleged Iranian agents are wanted by the FBI in connection with the suspected plot to kidnap Alinejad, who lives in New York, and take her back to Iran.

Bahadorifar was accused of making cash deposits of more than $476,100 into accounts in the United States since 2019, structuring most of the deposits in increments of less than $10,000 to avoid detection by the US financial authorities.

Bahadorifar was not accused of participating in the kidnapping conspiracy itself and her lawyers argued that she was an unwitting dupe.

"The government of Iran has shown that it will take extreme measures to silence dissidents and critics around the world exercising their lawful rights, including through the use of violence on US soil," Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said.

"We hold accountable an individual who violated US sanctions by providing financial assistance that ultimately supported a failed kidnapping plot directed by the Iranian government."

Alinejad, who is known for her criticism of Iran’s holy manal regime, including its requirement that women wear veils, was also the target of a separate Tehran-backed liquidation plot, according to US authorities.

Iranian authorities have denied any involvement in the alleged plots targeting Alinejad.

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