“When Jamal Khashoggi got brutally murdered, the whole world made statements of condemnation. I need the same, because another regime in the Middle East, the Islamic Republic, was trying to kidnap me. So that is why I want the Biden administration to be strong instead of just going after them, having a deal with them, they have to care about human rights as well.”
The joint investigation involves the FBI’s New York Field Office, Counterintelligence-Cyber Division, and Iran Threat Task Force.
The prosecution will be handled by trial Attorney Nathan Swinton of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael D. Lockard, Jacob H. Gutwillig, and Matthew J.C. Hellman of the Southern District of New York.
