In late July, an assailant with an AK-47 showed up outside the Brooklyn home of Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist who antagonized the clerical regime with her advocacy for women’s rights.

That episode marked the second time the Iranian regime appeared to have targeted Alinejad. Last year, the FBI busted an Iranian government plot to kidnap her in order to return her to Iran, perhaps via Venezuela. The Iranian regime openly promises to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his special representative for Iran, Brian Hook.