The U.S. Justice Department has unsealed an indictment on a high-ranking Iranian military official that alleges a string of crimes including the murder-for-hire plot of an unnamed female journalist who is a U.

A high-ranking member of an Iranian terror group was among four men charged in a plot to murder an Iranian-American author and activist in the US.

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a senior Iranian military official and three others with links to that country’s government with plotting to kill an Iranian American author on U.S. soil — a development lauded by the alleged target.

The charges are the first to directly link a high-ranking Revolutionary Guards member in the failed plot to kill a Brooklyn-based activist who criticized Iran's treatment of women.

U.S. prosecutors charge a brigadier general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard with plotting to kill an activist in New York

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a high-ranking official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and three other people with connections to the Iranian government in an alleged plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government.

The failed plot to kill Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist, has already led to murder-for-hire charges against members of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran.

The allegations point to a failed plan to assassinate Iranian American Masih Alinejad, a journalist and critic of Iran's repression of women