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September 13, 2024

Iran Is Hiring Criminals to Do Its Dirty Work

Hells Angels and Russian gangsters target dissidents and attack synagogues.

Besides arming terrorist groups like Hamas and Hizballah to make war in the Middle East, Iran has long had a strategy of arranging terrorist attacks in far away places. These include the murderous attack on the Buenos Aires Jewish center in 1994, as well as the 2012 bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian, and countless foiled attacks. And Jews aren’t the only target: Iran has tried to assassinate a Saudi ambassador in Washington, DC, the former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, and numerous Iranian dissidents living abroad. To do so, it has taken to hiring criminals. Greg Miller, Souad Mekhennet, and Cate Brown report:

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