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The indictment itself: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21580222/taherzadeh-and-ali-affidavit.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21580222/taherzad
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The indictment itself: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21580222/taherzadeh-and-ali-affidavit.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21580222/taherzadeh-a...
Recent coverage makes it seem this started in Feb 2020 as Soleimani retaliation: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-service-arian-taherzadeh-haider-ali-iranian-intelligence/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-service-arian-taherzadeh...
>Law enforcement sources told CBS News that investigators are looking into the possibility that the two suspects have ties to Iranian intelligence including to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite component of the Iranian military that conducts special operations, or the Quds force.
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>The FBI also singled out a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) employee who interacted with Taherzadeh and is listed among DHS personnel who received gifts from suspects in the affidavit. According to a senior DHS official, the current employee, who does not serve in a law enforcement capacity, has not been put on administrative leave and is not the subject of any internal review.