Posted on 01/30/2024 4:17:51 AM PST by Candor7
Two Canadians planned to conduct assassinations in the U.S. on behalf of Iran's intelligence services, according to allegations in a newly unsealed indictment.
The suspects are accused of plotting to shoot a man and woman living in Maryland, one of them a defector from Iran.
The charges unsealed Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice include details of the alleged plot, including the sum the would-be killers had charged for the job: $350,000 US.
News of the charges emerges at a time of acutely high tension with Iran, as the U.S. threatens retaliation after three U.S. military members were killed in an attack by an Iran-backed militia.
The indictment identifies one Canadian suspect as Damion Patrick John Ryan, a full-patch member of the Hells Angels criminal gang who allegedly assembled a team of gunmen in late 2020 and early 2021. He was allegedly working with another Canadian, Adam Richard Pearson, who was living illegally in Minnesota at the time.
They were hired by an accused Iranian drug-dealer who operates on the instructions of a certain officer with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, according to the U.S.
In a separate action Monday, the United States government announced financial sanctions against the network run by the alleged drug-dealer, Naji Ibrahim Sharifi-Zindashti.
American authorities say Zindashti is based in Iran and his criminal operation is given free rein by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
In exchange for state protection, they say, the criminal group carries out assassinations and kidnappings, on multiple continents, of dissidents and opponents of the Iranian regime; according to the U.S. Treasury Department, these operations were overseen by MOIS officer Reza Hamidiravari.
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"The Iranian regime's continued efforts to target dissidents and activists demonstrate the regime's deep insecurity and attempt to expand Iran's domestic repression internationally," said U.S. Treasury official Brian Nelson.
The charges do not identify the intended targets in Maryland. Authorities said the assassination plot against them was stopped before it could be carried out.
"Thanks to the skilled work of federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents, this murder-for-hire conspiracy was disrupted and the defendants will face justice," said U.S. prosecutor Andrew Luger, based in Minnesota.
As for the suspects, both are already in prison. Ryan is currently jailed in Canada on firearms charges and Pearson was arrested by the FBI in 2021 and extradited to Canada over a murder in Alberta five years ago.
They are now charged in the U.S. with one count of conspiracy to use interstate commerce facilities in a murder-for-hire plot, as is Zindashti.
The U.S. and the U.K. released, separately, on Monday sanctions lists of Iranian officials they linked to killings and plotted killing of dissidents and journalists in Turkey, the U.K., the U.S. and the Middle East.
Pearson also faces separate firearms charges.
The new allegations have not been proven in court.
This has always worried me. I know Iran would want to assassinate President Trump for taking out Soleimani.
No shortage of ‘Canadians’ (as we say in the hospitality business) in our major cities.
Take off, eh hoser? Blame blam blam.
Its an “Allah Wahoo Whackbar” wake up moment.
Oh , I forgot, John Kerry's daughters marriage into an Iranian elite family dictates Biden's Iran policy to do nothing to defend America.Nothing to see here .....move along now.....
Besides, our patriot police forces here are too busy chasing cartels around our sanctuary cities to do much about Iran's espionage here in the USA., and this incident is hardly mentioned at all ?
Soon we will likely have to have citizen miltia as of old, just like Texas is doing now.Thugs from Canada allowed by Trudeau's lenient Iran policies to do dirty in our country?
You can't make this stuff up.
According to Deep State.
Our Deep State is a far more clear and present danger to us than the bleeping mullahs.
Soon the hosers will have to have embassy issued visas to enter the USA. WHat a bunch of lewdzers!Including Canada’s village idiot, Justin Trudeau.
YOu bet, hit the nail RIGHT on the hed....and I would not put it past the DNC to arrange it with Iran, they are clearly in bed together.
Suicide Drone That Killed Three American Soldiers Slipped Past Air Defenses, Mistaken for US Drone
Link to separate story mentioned in your thread...
Canada names 100 Chinese, Russian, Iranian research institutions it says pose a threat to national security
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/reserach-canada-china-russia-iran-1.7085391
Yes, but Trudeau also had named the Freedom Convoy to that list and seized the bank accouts of Canadians who had donated 3 million dollars to the convoy via GiFundMe, and pressured GoFundMe to retain the 3 million and not issue it to the convoy.
The list includes true risks but also personal enemies of Trudeau himself, not Canada necessarily.
Such a list issued by the Trudeau government has to be examined for veracity.They would put MAGA on that list if they could get away with it.Canada’s government is essentially fascist at this point.
“The list includes true risks but also personal enemies of Trudeau himself, not Canada necessarily.”
Yup
“I know Iran would want to assassinate President Trump for taking out Soleimani.”
Nonsense...
How could they smuggle a drone across our border?
Well take a closer look. Our Deep state is working closely with Iran to destroy America.
It has to do with DNC Royalty, John Kerry, whose daughter married inti anelite Iranian family.Ever since then the DNC and any Dem adminsitration has been in bed with Iran.
So yiuo cannot separate the MULLAHS from the deep state. They are part and oparcel of the Deep state.This is why Biden refuses to hit Iran with a retaliatory strike....like taking out Karg Island. We are buying oil from them via third parties.(Oil is fungible).Biden won’t act, and the mullahs are right there inside the Biden administration .
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SSDDS.
Same ****, different Deep State.
It’s all tyranny.
But when it comes from within, when it hides in plain side, it’s far more insidious.
Well, we can destroy the Iranians..but the Deep State is a cancer.We need chemo therapy for it.
FReedom Gene therapy. I bet you are doing your research for the remedy.
We need to secure our elections.
John Kerry’s daughter: Vanessa married an Iranian named Nahed... Who was the best man at the wedding? - Mohammad Javad Zarif...
And who is Zarif? He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Mullahs in Iran (who hate women)..He was Kerry’s chief counterpart in the nuclear deal ...
Kerry was dealing with his daughter’s father-in-law. - Cozy..
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