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Iranians 'plotted to kidnap US, Canada and UK targets'

Four Iranian nationals have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist, the US Department of Justice says.

The indictment did not name the target, but Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-born author, says it was her.

The conspirators, described as intelligence officials, also allegedly plotted to lure a person in the UK and three others in Canada to Iran.

All of the targets had been critical of Iran, says the Manhattan indictment.

Prosecutors said the Iranian government had sought to lure the New York-based journalist to a third country where the abduction was planned.

The plotters even offered money to the writer's relatives in Iran to betray the target, which they refused to do, the indictment contends.

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