{"id":2767,"date":"2024-01-30T03:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T03:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/us-charges-iranian-national-and-two-canadians-in-alleged-assassination-plot\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T03:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T03:03:25","slug":"us-charges-iranian-national-and-two-canadians-in-alleged-assassination-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/us-charges-iranian-national-and-two-canadians-in-alleged-assassination-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"US charges Iranian national and two Canadians in alleged assassination plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran-linked drug dealer, a Canadian Hells Angel member and another man charged with plotting Iranian defector\u2019s killing<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>According to statements by the justice department and the Treasury on Monday, the alleged drug smuggler Naji Sharifi Zindashti, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/one-iranian-and-two-canadian-nationals-indicted-murder-hire-scheme\">ran an assassination ring on behalf of Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security<\/a> (Mois).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/29\/us-assassination-plot-iranian-national-two-canadians-charged\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran-linked drug dealer, a Canadian Hells Angel member and another man charged with plotting Iranian defector\u2019s killing 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 &#8230; <a title=\"US charges Iranian national and two Canadians in alleged assassination plot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/us-charges-iranian-national-and-two-canadians-in-alleged-assassination-plot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US charges Iranian national and two Canadians in alleged assassination plot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}