NEW YORK — A California woman got four years in prison Friday for channeling funds to Iranian intelligence operatives in a plot to kidnap and murder Brooklyn-based dissident journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad.
Niloufar “Nellie” Bahadorifar, 48, who pleaded guilty to violating U.S. sanctions in December, didn’t know about the plan to kill Alinejad.
But the feds say she nevertheless played a crucial role in the spine-chilling plot by providing the Iranians access to U.S. banking services, acting as a go-between for four operatives of that country’s theocratic regime, and a U.S. private investigator.
