Hell's Angels, US Assassinations, and the Iranian Regime
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Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Today we speak to journalist and 404 Media co-founder Joseph Cox. He's talking to us about a bizarre situation that involves a Canadian Hell's Angels assasination plot to murder Iranian dissidents in America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:06.6 | We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict |
| 0:11.8 | all across the world. Popular Front is completely independent. |
| 0:17.1 | Today we're speaking to journalist and co-founder of 404 Media, Joseph Cox. He's going to be talking to us about a very |
| 0:27.1 | weird situation where a Iranian hitman tried to contract Hell's Angels in Canada to kill Iranian dissidents in the |
| 0:37.6 | US. Very interesting, weird network of people Joseph is going to tell us all about it. If you like what we're |
| 0:44.6 | doing here at Popular Front, support us so we can keep growing independently, |
| 0:48.6 | Patreon.com. slash popular front. Today we're going to be speaking about honestly a story that it sounds like the sort of thing |
| 1:08.3 | that like Ben Shapiro would make like a shit movie about but it's real flipping hell like Iran hired |
| 1:16.9 | assassins murder plots encro chat all of this mad stuff. |
| 1:22.7 | Hell's Angels, like, tell us what is this, what is going on? |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, I mean, it's even hard to articulate because it's so crazy, |
| 1:31.4 | but I will try to put it in one sentence and it is essentially |
| 1:34.5 | there that an infamous drug trafficker supported by the Iranian state hired a Hell's Angel |
| 1:41.8 | member to organize a murder of at least one Iranian defector on US soil, |
| 1:48.0 | and this was all planned across an encrypted phone platform called Sky. You mentioned Encro Chat, that's like another similar one. They're all sort in the same ballpark and I'm sure we'll get to the phones, but that is the story sort of in a nutshell like the top line. |
| 2:05.6 | Right and this is a Canadian thing as well right? |
| 2:08.0 | Yes the Hell's Angels member was a Canadian national and also was also the other guy he allegedly hired those two people. |
| 2:17.0 | Like look there's a lot of characters here and I don't think your listeners need to |
| 2:20.4 | necessarily like remember all their names but more their roles but the |
| 2:24.1 | Hell's Angel member one of the Canadians you mentioned his name is |
| 2:27.7 | Damian Patrick John Ryan according to the court records he hires a guy called Adam Richard Pearson. The |
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