Hyderabad, Jan. 28 -- US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday, the arrest of 3 people on suspicion of involvement in what he described as a "Tehran-backed plot" for attempting to assassinate journalist and a prominent human rights activist of Iranian origin Masih Alinejad in the United States (US).

Garland said that two of the three arrested are members of a mafia operating in Eastern Europe and linked to Iran.

The announcement of the arrest of the three people and charges of attempted murder came to them six months after one of them, Khaled Mehdiyev, was arrested in front of Alinejad's house in New York in possession of an AK-47 assault rifle.

US Secretary of Justice did not mention the name of the journalist and human...