Iranian Military Official Charged In Plot To Assassinate Journalist In New York

Masih Alinejad, pictured at a panel discussion in September, was the target of an Iranian plot to kill her. (Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for The Atlantic)

A top-ranking official in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and three others were charged by the Department of Justice in an alleged plot to kill a New York journalist and human rights activist who has been critical of the Islamic regime.

Ruhollah Bazghandi, identified as a brigadier general in the IRGC, was named with three Iranian citizens in a superseding indictment unsealed this week by the Department of Justice and accused of the murder-for-hire scheme and money laundering.