An agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps charged in an alleged plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump before this year’s election has been connected to a failed assassination attempt against a New York City journalist and critic of Iran.

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American author and outspoken critic of the Islamic regime’s human rights abuses, especially its treatment of women, said in a video posted Friday on her X account that FBI agents informed her the alleged assassins planned to murder her, the New York Post reported.

“Whatever I do hurts them so bad they want to kill me,” she said in the video. “That makes me more determined to give voice to Iranian women, Iranian men, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder to bring the dictatorship down.”

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