US authorities have charged a general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in connection with an alleged plot to kill a dissident Iranian-American journalist. Ruhollah Bazghandi, identified as a brigadier general in the elite Iranian force also known as Roohollah Azimi, was among four Iran-based individuals involved in the plot to assassinate a journalist residing in New York, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Bazghandi had previously been sanctioned in April 2023 and June 2023 for his involvement with the detention of foreign prisoners held in Iran and for his participation of the IR…