Iran enlisted drug trafficker in failed plot to kill Azerbaijan rabbi -- report

Iran enlisted a Georgian drug trafficker to assassinate Azerbaijan Rabbi Shneor Segal as part of a plot that was foiled in January, according to the Washington Post.

The Quds Force, the overseas arms of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reportedly promised the would-be hitman $200,000 for killing Rabbi Shneor Segal and attacking an education center. The Georgian suspect and a local accomplice were arrested in January.

“We live here peacefully. I walk on the streets here, and there is no fear,” Segal tells the Washington Post, saying he learned about the attack plot and the arrests from local news.