[ April 16, 2026 ]
On Thursday, a 23-year-old man named Khalid Mehdiyev was arrested in Brooklyn outside the home of Masih Alinejad. She is the astonishingly courageous Iranian dissident who so enrages the mullahs who lead the Islamic Republic that they mounted an audacious plot last year to kidnap her in New York and take her back to Iran, where she would have faced unimaginable horrors. Was this a second attempt by the Iranians to rid themselves of one of their highest-profile and most trenchant critics? If so, it highlights yet again Old Joe Biden’s appalling weakness. Weakness, after all, invites aggression.
According to the New York Post, Mehdiyev (which is a common Azeri name; there is a sizable Azeri minority in Iran) had a loaded AK-47 and over a thousand dollars in cash, and had been hanging around Alinejad’s home for two days before he was finally apprehended. The federal complaint “makes no explicit connection between Mehdiyev and Alinejad but says the accused had focused on an unnamed Brooklyn ‘residence.’”
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#BREAKING A security camera footage obtained by @IranIntl_En shows Khalid Mehdiyev, the man arrested by New York Police Department with an AK-47, outside Brooklyn residence of Iranian dissident journalist @AlinejadMasih. The police says the AK-47's serial number had been removed. pic.twitter.com/6Y8zgvwlTv
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) July 31, 2022
The terror state of Iran dispatches assassins in New York City to murder dissident Journalist Masih Alinejad. All while the Biden Administration works to give them nukes and billions of dollars in sanctions relief.
Shocked to learn that an assassin with a loaded AK47 came my home in Brooklyn. Last year, the Islamic Republic, tried to kidnap me, now they want to kill me. I’m grateful to federal agents but the Administration must do more to protect US citizens. https://t.co/5gu9XRIVzs
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) July 31, 2022
Man arrested with AK-47 outside of dissident Iranian journalist’s Brooklyn home
By New York Post, July 31, 2022
ADVERTISEMENTA man armed with a loaded AK-47 was arrested on Thursday outside of the Brooklyn home of Iranian dissident journalist Masih Alinejad, according to sources and charging documents.
Khalid Mehdiyev, 23, was found with the assault rifle, a high-capacity magazine and more than $1,000 worth of cash when he was arrested after lurking for two days, according to a federal complaint.
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