US charges Iran drug dealer and Canadian Hells Angel over alleged assassination plot
by Julian Borger world affairs editor from on (#6J7SP)
Tehran-linked drug dealer, a Canadian Hells Angel member and another man charged with plotting Iranian defector's killing in the US
The US has charged an Iranian drug trafficker with intelligence ties to Tehran, a Canadian Hells Angel and another Canadian man in an alleged plot to carry out assassinations in the US.
According to statements by the justice department and the Treasury on Monday, the alleged drug smuggler Naji Sharifi Zindashti, ran an assassination ring on behalf of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (Mois).
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