A man armed with a Kalashnikov was arrested last week in New York outside the home of an Iranian-American feminist journalist and activist, hostile to Tehran and the target of a kidnapping project in 2018.
Last Wednesday and Thursday, Khalid Mehdiyev was caught around Masih Alinejad’s home in Brooklyn, one of New York’s five boroughs. The man was finally arrested at the end of last week by the FBI who discovered in his car an AK-47 rifle and about sixty ammunition, according to a note from the federal police filed Friday with the Manhattan federal court.
In these court documents made public, Masih Alinejad is not cited but the person concerned confirmed on Sunday and Monday on Twitter, with supporting video surveillance images, that the man arrested by the New York police “had tried to go home to (her) New York with a loaded gun to kill (her)”.
“Last year the FBI stopped the Islamic Republic (of Iran) from kidnapping me. My crime is giving a voice to the voiceless. The United States government must be tough on terrorism,” wrote feminist social media activist.
In July 2021, American justice indicted four “Iranian intelligence agents”, accused of having prepared the kidnapping of Masih Alinejad in 2018 by trying to force Iranian relatives of the journalist to lure him to a third country, in order to that she be arrested, taken to Iran and imprisoned.
Last summer, as a sign of support, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with this Iranian-American activist, known in particular for her positions against the wearing of the hijab by women in Iran and her hostile statements and writings. to the Tehran regime.
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