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Hudson Valley Man Plotted To Assassinate Journalist For Criticizing Iranian Government: Feds Hudson Valley Man Plotted To Assassinate Journalist For Criticizing Iranian Government: Feds
Hudson Valley Man Plotted To Assassinate Journalist For Criticizing Iranian Government: Feds A New York man is among three people implicated in an alleged plot to assassinate an Iranian-American journalist on US soil over her criticism of the Iranian government, authorities said. Westchester County resident Khalid Mehdiyev, age 24, of Yonkers, is named in a superseding indictment that was unsealed in the Southern District of New York on Friday, Jan. 27, against three people for murder-for-hire and money-laundering charges. Federal prosecutors allege that Mehdiyev is a member of a violent Eastern European criminal organization that has ties to Iran and has engaged in murders, kidna…