[2][3][4] Bazghandi has served as a counterintelligence official within the IRGC-IO, where he has been involved in detaining foreign prisoners in Iran and conducting counterespionage operations.
[5][6] Bazghandi has played a central role in assassination schemes targeting journalists, dissidents, Israeli citizens, and others deemed adversaries of Iran.
Notably, he was charged in connection with a plots to assassinate Donald Trump and Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and human rights activist living in exile in New York City.
[1][3][7] The plot involved hiring members of an Eastern European criminal organization to carry out the assassination.
[5][6] In October 2024, he was indicted by U.S. authorities for his role in the attempted murder-for-hire plot against Alinejad.