Iranian Revolutionary Guard plot to kill journalist uncovered in Brooklyn

Police arrested a driver in Brooklyn who was found with an AK-47, discovering that he intended to assassinate Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad, a former Voice of America contributor who resides a few doors away. The Justice Department alleges that senior officers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard directed the plot and allocated $500,000 for the killing. In a related case, a Georgian citizen named Polad Omarov was sentenced to 25 years in prison for helping coordinate the scheme.

The piece highlights that no major American news outlet maintains a correspondent in Georgia, leaving the Iranian operation’s activities there under-reported. It describes recent Georgian political moves, including the liquidation of a NATO information center and the sale of its building to a company linked to the mayor of Tbilisi. The article argues that the absence of U.S. reporting hampers understanding of Iran’s influence in the region.