The U.S. Justice Department has charged an Iranian national and two Canadians for plotting to assassinate an Iranian defector in Maryland.
This is at least the third Iran-based murder-for-hire plot prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department since 2022.
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the Iranian national, Naji Sharifi Zindashti, and described him as a drug trafficker who targets Iranian dissidents for assassination and kidnapping. [ more ]