Journalist Masih Alinejad speaks onstage at the 7th Annual Women In The World Summit at the Lincoln Center in New York City, April 7, 2016. (Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images/AFP)
The US Justice Department announced Friday the arrests of three people who allegedly took part in a Tehran-backed plot to assassinate dissident Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
Two of those arrested were members of an Eastern European organized crime group with ties to Iran who were recruited to arrange Alinejad's murder in New York, said Attorney General Merrick Garland.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated shortly. The US Justice Department announced Friday the arrests of three people who allegedly took part in a Tehran-backed plot to assassinate dissident Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
Two of those arrested were members of an Eastern European organized crime group with ties to Iran who were recruited to arrange Alinejad's murder in New York, said...
Two of those arrested were members of an Eastern European organized crime group with ties to Iran who were recruited to arrange Alinejad's murder in New York, said...