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Man With Loaded AK-47 Seized by NYPD After Lurking Near Brooklyn Home of Iranian Dissident

Masih Alinejad, exiled from Iran, calls on President Biden to act after what appears to be a second attempt on her life.

Kambiz Foroohar via Wikimedia Commons
Masih Alinejad in 2018. Kambiz Foroohar via Wikimedia Commons
BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

An Iranian dissident is calling on President Biden to act on Iranian-backed attempts on her life on American soil. Masih Alinejad spoke with the Sun via text after the arrest near her home in Brooklyn of a man with a loaded AK-47.

Last July the Federal Bureau of Investigation foiled an Iranian plot to kidnap Ms. Alinejad and to hustle her onto a speedboat in Brooklyn. From there the plan was to transport her to Venezuela and then to Iran, where a hanging was planned.  

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BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

Benny Avni is a columnist who has published in the New York Post, WSJOpinion, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Israel Radio, Ha’Aretz, and others. Once New York Sun, always New York Sun.

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