{"id":590855,"date":"2021-07-14T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590855"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:20:56","slug":"while-biden-goes-soft-on-iran-iranian-regime-reportedly-directed-kidnapping-of-american-anti-regime-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-biden-goes-soft-on-iran-iranian-regime-reportedly-directed-kidnapping-of-american-anti-regime-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"While Biden Goes Soft On Iran, Iranian Regime Reportedly Directed Kidnapping Of American Anti-Regime Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhile-biden-goes-soft-on-iran-iranian-regime-reportedly-directed-kidnapping-of-american-anti-regime-journalist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590855&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-519641072.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>While the Biden administration is busy considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/biden-admin-weighs-lifting-sanctions-iran-s-supreme-leader-ayatollah-n1272232\">eliminating sanctions<\/a> placed on the despotic Iranian regime by the Trump administration, the Department of Justice announced it was charging four Iranian men connected with the Iranian regime with an attempt to kidnap an Iranian-American journalist who has spoken out vehemently against the regime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"styles_body__1uzzK article-body publico-txt f4 f5-m lh-copy gray-100\" data-test=\"articleBody\" readability=\"34.078947368421\">\n<div class=\"article-body__content\" readability=\"38.947368421053\">\n<p class>\u201cProsecutors say the Iranian government directed followers to kidnap the author to get her back to Iran.&nbsp;Farahani is an Iranian intelligence official who lives in Iran, and Khazein, Sadeghi, and Noori are Iranian intelligence assets who work for him, the Justice Department said,\u201d NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/four-iranians-charged-plotting-kidnap-author-living-brooklyn-n1273890\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"30\">\n<p><em>A New York federal court unsealed an indictment today charging four Iranian nationals with conspiracies related to kidnapping, sanctions violations, bank and wire fraud, and money laundering. A co-conspirator and California resident, also of Iran, faces additional structuring charges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to court documents, Alireza Shavaroghi Farahani, aka Vezerat Salimi and Haj Ali, 50; Mahmoud Khazein, 42; Kiya Sadeghi, 35; and Omid Noori, 45, all of Iran, conspired to kidnap a Brooklyn journalist, author and human rights activist for mobilizing public opinion in Iran and around the world to bring about changes to the regime\u2019s laws and practices. Niloufar Bahadorifar, aka Nellie Bahadorifar, 46, originally of Iran and currently residing in California, is alleged to have provided financial services that supported the plot.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Masih Alinejad, who now serves as a producer with Voice of America and is the author of \u201cThe Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran,\u201d told NBC News that she was the target of the Iranian plot. \u201cI\u2019ve been targeted for a number of years but this is the first time that such an audacious plot has been hatched and foiled,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA law enforcement official familiar with the case also identified the author as Alinejad,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/four-iranians-charged-plotting-kidnap-author-living-brooklyn-n1273890\">NBC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Alinejad said on Tuesday night, \u201cThe police have been around my home for the past two weeks now. When I asked them why they were here, they told me it was to protect me. This is also what the FBI told me. They said they\u2019d tell me later, but that the police have to be here often. They are here from 5 a.m. until midnight. I\u2019m so not used to being protected by the police. Every time I see them I assume it\u2019s to arrest me. Yes, I\u2019m also worried. I see them often \u2014 even when I go out to check on my flowers in my garden. But it imbues me with a feeling of safety when I see the police protect me. This wouldn\u2019t have happened in my homeland. It\u2019s a weird feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.692737430168\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am grateful to FBI for foiling the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8217;s Intelligence Ministry&#8217;s plot to kidnap me. This plot was orchestrated under Rouhani. <\/p>\n<p>This is the regime that kidnapped &amp; executed Ruhollah Zam. They&#8217;ve also kidnapped and jailed Jamshid Sharmahd and many others <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HUefdEbiil\">pic.twitter.com\/HUefdEbiil<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Masih Alinejad \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f (@AlinejadMasih) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlinejadMasih\/status\/1415115191084322816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>William F. Sweeney Jr., the head of the F.B.I.\u2019s New York office, stated, \u201cThis is not some far-fetched movie plot. We allege a group, backed by the Iranian government, conspired to kidnap a U.S.-based journalist here on our soil and forcibly return her to Iran. Not on our watch,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9786007\/FBI-charge-four-Iranians-plot-kidnap-NYC-journalist-criticized-human-rights-abuses.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Alinejad told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/31\/opinion\/iran-hijab-feminist.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\">The New York Times<\/a>, \u201cOver the past two decades \u2014 as a journalist critical of the regime, as an outspoken feminist and ultimately a dissident living in exile in America \u2014 the Islamic Republic has tried to intimidate me and my family, which still lives in the poor village where I was raised in northern Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer brother,&nbsp;Alireza Alinejad, a father of two small children, was arrested in 2019 and taken to the infamous Evin prison where he was held for 10 months before being sentenced to eight years in prison,\u201d The Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Biden administration is busy considering eliminating sanctions placed on the despotic Iranian regime by the Trump administration, the Department of Justice announced it was charging four Iranian men &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314663,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-519641072.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"While Biden Goes Soft On Iran, Iranian Regime Reportedly Directed Kidnapping Of American Anti-Regime Journalist","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-519641072.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"While Biden Goes Soft On Iran, Iranian Regime Reportedly Directed Kidnapping Of American Anti-Regime Journalist","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}