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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/30/maryland-murder-for-hire-iran-canada/
Iranian Charged with Hiring Hit Men to Kill Exiles in Maryland
(Washington Post) Leo Sands - The U.S. Justice Department has charged Iran-based Naji Sharifi Zindashti, 49, with recruiting a team of gunmen to assassinate a man and woman residing in Maryland after one of them defected from Iran. Zindashti offered to pay two Canadian nationals $370,000 for the murders. The "charges show a pattern of Iranian groups trying to murder U.S. residents on U.S. soil," Assistant Director Suzanne Turner of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division said Monday.