The Iranian Revolutionary Guards planned to assassinate Masih Alinejad while she delivered a talk to students in Connecticut’s Fairfield University.
The 48-year-old dissident journalist uncovered corruption and women’s rights in the theocratic regime for years, but fled her home country more than a decade ago, moving to New York to build a new life.
The FBI this week informed her that she was on an Iranian hit list, with the date of her lecture chosen for the assassination attempt.
That was the first surprise. The second was that the hitman assigned to kill her, whom authorities have named as Farjad Shakeri, was also under orders to kill Donald Trump, the president-elect.
“I am shocked. I just learned from the FBI that two men were arrested yesterday in a new plot to kill me at Fairfield University, where I was scheduled to give a talk,” Ms Alinejad wrote on social media.
“I also learned that the person assigned to assassinate [Mr Trump] was also assigned to kill me on US soil,” she continued, adding that the “alleged killers” had turned up at her house in Brooklyn.
She was catapulted to fame as a reporter in the Iranian parliament, questioning powerful men in a country where women do not have the vote and have been beaten to death for leaving home without a hijab.
She once approached a politician for an interview, only for him to wave a fist in her face and threaten to beat her when he spotted a few hairs poking out of her head covering.
Ms Alinejad says she shouted back: “All this fuss about two strands of hair. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
In an interview with the Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, she asked why other countries should “respect our Islamic values” when western women were forced to wear a hijab in Iran. Khatami, by her account, was left “speechless”.
This was a Deep State plot to gain public support to go to war with Iran. A false flag.
Something stinks, these would be assassins had a list of targets all over the place. Very convenient.
She is right about the Hijab though, when in Rome, only seems to work one way.
Go and have a look at pictures of Iranian society from the 1970s. What happened?
Was the C_A involved in doing this extremism push, in order to foment conflict leading to wars for the deep state? That's my guess.