An Iranian opposition activist who U.S. authorities said was the target of two thwarted kidnapping or murder plots urged a federal judge in New York on Friday to hand a tough prison sentence to a woman who unwittingly funded one of the planned attacks.
Masih Alinejad, a one-time Iranian journalist, said her sense of safety has been shattered since authorities notified her in 2020 that she was being watched and that photographs were taken of her Brooklyn residence of 10 years. Since then, she has received U.S. government protection and has moved frequently between safe houses.
Abrams rejected a request by Bahadorifar's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, that his client be spared a prison term on the grounds that she, too, was a victim of a "dark, repressive, evil terror regime" that had left her so programmed to do as she was told that she fled Iran only to live for a time in Canada with a "fundamentalist, lunatic, abusive husband."
Alinejad long has been targeted by Iran's theocracy after fleeing the country following its disputed 2009 presidential election and crackdown. The investigator was part of a plan by the would-be kidnappers, working for the government of Iran, to use private investigators in 2020 and 2021 to surveil, photograph, and video record Alinejad and others in her home on multiple occasions, prosecutors said.
At her December plea, Bahadorifar said she had sent funds to the private investigator on behalf of a government official in Iran who was a longtime family friend.
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