A prominent Brooklyn journalist said Friday she was “shocked” to learn she was the target of two New Yorkers linked to an Iranian government plot to assassinate Donald Trump before the election.
Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American author and activist who’s an outspoken critic of the Tehran regime, said in a X video that FBI agents informed her the alleged would-be killers had planned to murder her as she gave a talk at Fairfield University in February.
“Whatever I do, hurts them so bad they want to kill me,” she said. “That makes me more determined to give voice to Iranian women, Iranian men, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder to bring the dictatorship down.”
A bombshell indictment unveiled Friday accuses Brooklyn native Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Staten Islander Jonathan Loadholt, 36, of engaging in a murder-for-hire plot with Iranian agent Farhad Shakeri, 51.
Shakeri was tasked by an unnamed official in Iran with having a plan to assassinate Trump during the 2024 campaign’s final weeks.
He had tasked the two New Yorkers with killing Alinejad, who had been targeted for assassination by the Tehran regime in the past.
The pair stalked Alinejad for nine months, according to the indictment.
“This b—h is hard to catch, bro,” one complained to Shakeri, the indictment states.
