Man arrested with rifle outside home of US-Iranian journalist
Al JazeeraMasih Alinejad, a critic of the Iranian government, says she was ‘shocked’ by the arrest outside her house in Brooklyn. A man with a loaded AK-47 rifle has been arrested near the home of Iranian-American journalist and government critic Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn, New York, court documents have shown. Alinejad, who was the target of an alleged Tehran-backed kidnapping plot last year, said she was “shocked” by the arrest last week, which became public at the weekend. An FBI agent wrote in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court on Friday that a man called Khalid Mehdiyev had spent two days last week outside Alinejad’s home, and at one point attempted to open the door. White House national security spokesperson John Kriby condemned on Monday the “apparent attempt to harm Leading Iranian activist Masih Alinejad”.
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