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US charges Iranian Revolutionary Guard official in plot to kill VOA host

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Federal prosecutors in New York charged Ruhollah Bazghandi , a senior official in Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , with participating in a failed attempt to assassinate VOA Persian service journalist Masih Alinejad in 2022 .

The indictment is the first to directly accuse a high-ranking official in the Revolutionary Guard , or IRGC , with a role in the plot.

"It shows that this is in the DNA of the Revolutionary Guards ," she says.

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