Iranian ‘useful idiots’ are convicted of plan to ‘eliminate’ reporters

Two Iranian migrants who were hired through social media as ‘useful idiots’ in a plan to ‘eliminate’ journalists for daring to criticise their country’s murderous regime are facing jail. Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, and Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, visited addresses linked to their targets, took videos and conducted online research for the Iranian intelligence service. They are part of a disturbing new trend in which ‘proxies’ are hired to work for foreign security forces, with often little idea who they are…