This feels like someone in Iran studied the Khashoggi murder as a masterclass in how to handle dissidents living on US soil
https://twitter.com/DOJNatSec/status/1415064351468367876
From the indictment of four Iranian intelligence officials charged with conspiracy to kidnap an Iranian journalist author and human rights activist based in Brooklyn, and take that person back to Iran, "where the victim’s fate would have been uncertain at best" 
Note this from the indictment: "Farahani and his network procured the services of private investigators to surveil, photograph and video record Victim-1 and Victim-1’s household members in Brooklyn....
"Farahani’s network procured days’ worth of surveillance at Victim-1’s home and the surrounding area, videos and photographs of the victim’s family and associates, surveillance of the victim’s residence, and the installation of and access to a live high-def video feed of ...home"
"The network procured the surveillance [of private investigators] by misrepresenting their identities and the purpose of the surveillance to the investigators, and laundered money into the US from Iran to pay for the surveillance."
Indictment doesn't say who journalist/author/activist is, but court doc indicates person actively protested Iranian women being forced to wear a hijab. That descrip fits Brooklyn-based journalist Masih Alinejad who sued Iranian gov in 2019 for harassment apnews.com/article/religi…
Masih Alinejad accused Iran of trying to use her brother to lure her to Turkey and kidnap her - which matches info laid out in court doc published today (justice.gov/opa/press-rele…) which says Iran tried to use target's family to lure them to third country en.radiofarda.com/a/brother-of-a…
Court document says the brother of kidnapping target was arrested in 2019, and that also matches what happened with Masih Alinejad's brother
And here's an op-ed written by Brooklyn-based Iran-born journalist Masih Alinejad, and published last August in the Washington Post, talking about Iranian officials threatening to kidnap her over her anti-hijab activism washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Brooklyn-based, Iranian-born journalist @AlinejadMasih has confirmed that she was target of Iranian kidnapping plot. Here she says in vid that police have been outside her house the last two weeks. She also says they only guard her from 5am-midnight.
https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1415115191084322816
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