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Iranian operatives intended to assassinate Americans

Reported by PMOI/MEK

 

Iran, Aug. 25, 2018 – Seeing its operatives in a grave dilemma after being obtained by U.S. federal authorities, the Iranian regime is literally resorting to any and all measures to resolve this escalating crisis.

An attorney for one of the Iranian regime spies-arrested in Chicago and in court the same city-actually argued that the U.S. government's case "wouldn't even make sense in a B-rated spy novel."

The FBI arrested Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar, 38, a dual American-Iranian citizen, on August 9th in his Hyde Park-Chicago apartment, accusing him of acting as an Iranian regime agent without authorization and providing services to Tehran in violation of U.S. sanctions.

Doostdar stands accused alongside 59-year old California-based Iranian national Majid Ghorbani, who on Tuesday saw a Washington, D.C. judge order him held without bond. The D.C. courthouse registered A federal indictment naming both men was on file Wednesday in the D.C. courthouse.

On Wednesday Doostdar appeared in a Chicago federal courtroom waiving an identity hearing and will be also taken to Washington.

The federal charges are accusing the two men of being deployed by the Iranian regime to target members and supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK. The intelligence they are accused of gathering focused on events held by the Iranian Diaspora in support of the PMOI/MEK, according to an FBI agent who worked on the case.

"The government has a reasonable argument the case is all about performing services for an enemy country," said former federal prosecutor Gil Soffer, ABC7's legal analyst. Prosecutors will attempt to show the men are threats and a flight risk to hold them without bond.

If there are ties overseas, the US administration can demonstrate there have been visits to Iran, providing them a very strong case before the court judge.

The original lawsuit accuses Ghorbani of pursuing covert surveillance at Washington's Grand Hyatt hotel in May of 2018. During the time the hotel was hosting an event organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities putting on an Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights that significantly angered Tehran and gained widespread media coverage.

A YouTube video of one of the speakers, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, clearly shows Ghorbani in the audience, holding up a mobile phone and filming the event, according to U.S. authorities.

 

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