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almost every week iranian-backed militias have attacked u.s. bases in syria and iraq. it's the latest example and a serious escalation of teheran's use of proxy fighters, like hezbollah and hamas. tonight, you'll hear of another type of proxy that iran deploys, that receives far less attention. teheran is hiring hitmen around the world in an effort to intimidate, abduct and assassinate perceived enemies of the regime. and they're doing it right here on u.s. soil. this video was posted online by a channel affiliated with iran's revolutionary guard. it vows to kill former american government officials, including president trump, to avenge the 2020 u.s. assassination of the terrorism master mind qassem soleimani.

threats like this have been deemed credible enough that several of these officials have been under round-the-clock protection including former defense secretary mark esper, former secretary of state, mike pompeo, iran reportedly offered a hitman a million dollars to kill him. and john bolton, the former national security adviser. >> they bargained the price for me would be $300,000, which i have to say i found insulting. >> so what exactly was the plot against you? >> the revolutionary guard sought to procure either my kidnapping or my assassination. not directly by a revolutionary guard's member, but by seeking a hitman who would carry out the job either in the u.s. or abroad. >> reporter: the fbi has an arrest warrant out for this iranian officer, claiming that he hired the hitman online to travel to washington, corner

bolton in a garage, and kill him. but it turned out, lucky for bolton, the assassin was an fbi informant. >> this was not internet chatter. this was a negotiation to murder an american citizen, a former government official. >> reporter: is the threat against you ongoing? >> we've got marked secret service cars that say police, united states secret service, outside my home. >> reporter: we talked to the fbi and several intelligence agencies, and they told us that iran's efforts are becoming more frequent and bolder. and that they often go after vocal iranian activists living abroad. >> the idea behind assassination plot, behind kidnapping plot is to keep you silent. >> reporter: we met one of their targets in brooklyn, masih alinejad is a leader in the women's revolt against the law in iran mandating they wear a

head scarf or hijab. forced to flee 14 years ago, she settled here in brooklyn, where she encourages women back home to send her videos of them taking off the hijabs and she spreads those images online to her 10 million or so followers, fueling the protest movement. so the mullahs began to focus on you. the fbi came and told you there was a plot against you. >> there were, like, six or seven fbi agents. when they came to my house, they told me that your life is in danger. okay, tell me something new because we iranians are used to it. but they actually said, no. this time it's different. they said that the iranian regime hired private investigator on u.s. soil, to take photos of your movement, your daily life, your routine. and i was like, wow.

so they're here, in new york, in brooklyn. >> reporter: the plot was to kidnap you and take you by speedboat to venezuela? >> hey, it sounds like a scary movie to you, no? >> reporter: no, it sounds implausible to me. >> you see. it's a reality for us. >> reporter: and a reality for the fbi, that says the plan was to get her to iran to stand trial. it was the same for jamshid sharmahd, another iranian dissident who lived in los angeles for two decades and created a website where people in iran could report human rights abuses. in 2020, while he was changing planes in dubai on a business trip, his family noticed his phone started heading in the wrong direction. his daughter, gazelle sharmahd, soon saw her dad pop up on iranian tv in a courtroom looking petrified.

>> he forced confessions about crimes he did not commit. the choice he gave him was corruption on earth. that's why he got the death sentence. >> reporter: is it a situation where he could actually be executed -- >> oh, yes. >> reporter: any day? >> they want to hang him from a crane the middle of the city. >> reporter: the original plot to kidnap masih was thwarted, but according to the fbi, a year later in 2022, iran paid this azerbaijani, living outside new york city, $30,000 to buy a semiautomatic rifle and kill her. he lurked outside her home for a week. his plan was to take advantage of her friendliness to her neighbors. >> he was actually following my life. he knew that i was the one offering flowers to strangers. >> reporter: you offered flowers to strangers? >> yeah. this is me. so he received a text message

from the guy inside iran, saying that, go and knock the door and then take her to the backyard garden. if i had opened the door, i would have just given him a big smile, and said, yes, let's go to my garden. and then he wanted to just kill me? >> did he actually knock on your door? >> yes. >> reporter: her home security camera actually caught him on her porch trying to get in. eventually he took off but was pulled over for running a stop sign. that's when the police found this in his car. he's been in custody awaiting trial ever since. but here's what's interesting. neither he nor two other men the prosecutors say were hired for the job were iranian. like him, they were eastern european and, as is becoming a trademark of iran's shadow war, they were criminals. >> they were all from criminal syndicate. this is what the islamic republic is really good at,

like, using drug dealers, using criminals to do their dirty job on the western soil. >> well, and maybe have deniability. >> exactly. >> reporter: we didn't do it. >> that's the point. >> reporter: so why do they use proxies? >> to have somebody who is not being tracked by intelligence or security agencies for this. >> reporter: matt jukes, head of counterterrorism policing in britain, says this is not just an american problem. in the uk, they have foiled 15 iranian kidnapping and assassination attempts since last year. >> i've been involved in national security policing for over 20 years. what we've seen in the last 18 months is a real acceleration. >> reporter: we have been told that a lot of these criminal gangs hire other criminal gangs, and then maybe a third group. >> i think we're always going to see this collaboration between criminal organizations. we know that this will not

always be a direct line from a state organization to a threat to a potential kidnapping. >> reporter: this recording was given to us by a foreign intelligence agency. it shows how iran recruits criminals. >> translator: i received a call from the irgc, the revolutionary guard. >> reporter: this is an iranian smuggler from urmia, a town near the turkish border. he reveals to the foreign agents that he was approached by iran's revolutionary guard with a deal. they'll turn a blind eye to his smuggling if he helps them. >> translator: their request was that i find people who could work for them. what kind of work? anything. like, catching someone for us so they can be beaten up or gotten rid of. >> reporter: this surveillance video shows him recruiting a fellow smuggler for the task. the man in white is mansour

rasouli, an alleged drug dealer. he agreed to arrange assassinations throughout europe for the iranian government for money. but a few weeks later, rasouli was kidnapped at night and interrogated in a car, reportedly by israeli intelligence. they extracted this cell phone confession where rasouli admits he was paid $150,000 up front and promised a million dollars if he killed three people for the iranians. >> translator: one is an israeli at the embassy istanbul turkey. another one is a american general in germany. one is a journalist in france. >> the french target was identified as philosopher bernard henri levy. a vocal critic of the regime in teheran. the identity of the american general remains a mystery.

the plot to kill the three was prevented. but in recent years, iranian dissidents were successfully kidnapped and smuggled to iran. several were executed. they've succeeded in europe. they haven't succeeded in the united states. even though we know there are targets. >> right. >> reporter: so many american officials and others are being targeted. why is it not a bigger issue? >> look, i think the targeting of american citizens by a hostile foreign government is very close to an act of war. >> reporter: what would happen if they succeeded in assassinating someone like you, a well-known former official? >> well, i wouldn't like to find out for myself or for the country. but why are we sitting here, quietly talking about this when they're in effect saying they're going to commit acts of war against american citizens on american soil?

>> reporter: does the fact that iran feels emboldened to come after our citizens, does it mean we've lost our deterrence? >> well, i think we have lost deterrence. and i think this also goes to an unwillingness on the part of the administration to confront the the ayatollahs in a way they understand. >> they can challenge u.s. government on u.s. soil without any punishment. >> there are sanctions against them. >> sanction is not sufficient. sanction is not helping. >> reporter: what do you want us to do? drop a bomb? >> no. look, when you negotiate with the killers, you're empowering them. >> reporter: the biden administration didn't respond to our request for an interview. when masih alinejad was called to testify before congress about iran in september, she said that unless the administration's policy changes, her life will continue to be in danger.

>> i believe that when i'm not in the spotlight, when media like you are not paying attention to me, finally they're going to come after me. >> reporter: while she now has the freedom to speak her mind in america, she does not have the freedom to live where she wants. masih and her family have had to go into hiding, under fbi protection. >> it's like, wow. the government from my own country trying to kill me, but my adopted country trying to protect me. you have to be an iranian to survive assassination plot. to understand that. how it feels. to survive in america, and to have the platform and to criticize the u.s. government. >> reporter: you're tearing up. tell me why you're tearing up. >> because people in my country get killed for criticizing. get shot in head for the crime of criticizing.

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last month, a u.n. report found new evidence that russia had committed war crimes in ukraine, with deliberate killings and widespread use of torture. but they have yet to examine the intentional destruction of cultural property, which also is a war crime. ukraine accuses russia of targeting forces, libraries and lo looting the most important museums. while plunder is as old as war itself, ukrainian investigators say this is different. they see a campaign of cultural genocide to destroy ukraine's identity as a nation.

today, a network of cultural warriors in ukraine is building the case against russia. it's a heritage war one told us. and we joined them on the front lines. >> reporter: not much was left of the tiny village of viazivka a few hours northwest of kyiv after russian forces overwhelmed the region last march. but we weren't prepared for this. my god. so ihor, what happened here? >> liberation of ukraine by russian occupation forces. you see what this liberation means. >> reporter: why would they target a church? >> in this small village, this was the main place. and it was targeted just to destroy what keeps the whole village and the whole community together. >> ihor poshyvailo is director of the contemporary maidan museum in kyiv. he'd brought us to see the

carcass of the church of the nativity. on ukraine's heritage list. poshyvailo told us the russians had deliberately shelled it when they retreated last year. there was no fighting nearby. built in 1862, the church had survived two world wars, a communism and a revolution, but not this. so what message do you think the russians were trying to send by destroying this church? >> we are strong. you should be afraid of us. and we will do what we want to do. we don't need you on this land. we don't need your traditions, beliefs, your culture. you'll not, you'll not exist. >> reporter: erase you. >> erase you, exactly. >> reporter: as we sifted through the wreckage, poshyvailo told us the church had been famous for its unique centuries-old folk art. and these are all paintings? >> yes. and you can see that they still have -- >> wow. look at that. >> reporter: he told us this was

one of 700 churches that have been hit so far. some were collateral damage, many were not. to document the destruction, poshyvailo co-founded the heritage emergency response initiative, a sort of cultural s.w.a.t. team that travels to damaged sites, interviewing eyewitnesses and saving what they can. >> it's a nightmare for me because every morning i get up and i think that it's -- it's not reality what we have. anat the same time, the feelings that we will never forgive. >> reporter: never forgive? >> we will never forgive. i mean, the cultural legacy, cultural heritage, this is what make us rich. and what we have to protect, and pass to future generations. that's why i can see that it's one of the front lines in this war because destroying our past, russians tries to destroy our future. >> reporter: it's not only

churches, hundreds of museums, libraries, and monuments have been bombed, burned or shelled. last february, the russians razed this small folk museum near kyiv to the ground. nearby buildings were untouched. farther east, russian artillery destroyed this museum. locals carried out the only surviving statue of its patron saint like a wounded patient. poshyvailo, and others, told us they believe it's a strategy that comes straight from the kremlin. for years, russian president vladimir putin has publicly dismissed ukraine's right to exist at all. we are all russians, he said. many museum workers have been arrested, even kidnapped by russian soldiers. you don't usually think of museum workers as being in danger. >> they are among the first people russians come for. >> reporter: why? >> well, first of all, they are

interested in the collections. where did they hide the collections? what is the value of the collections? and the second reason is museum workers, leaders in their community. >> reporter: milena chorna is head of international exhibits at the national war museum in kyiv. she helped set up a museum crisis hot line for workers in the war zone trying to save their collections. they were soon swamped with calls for help. sending money for russian bribes, devising escape routes. hiding paintings and sometimes just to talk. >> you cut off all your emotions, trying to do everything you can to help. putting it all through yourself, it is really difficult. and at some point, you realize, yeah, that you have a ptsd already although you haven't been to the forefront. >> reporter: milena chorna told us many workers actually moved into their museums to help guard the collections.

even as the bombs fell. in the north, during the siege of chernihiv, she told us about one museum worker who moved in with her 8-year-old daughter. there was no electricity, no water, no heat. >> when it got really bad -- >> reporter: weeks later, volunteers trying to deliver a generator to the museum were killed. >> she stayed? >> she stayed until the liberation, yes. and now she is in the army. >> what do you think of that? >> i believe at some point she might have acknowledged that what we are doing is not good enough. and at some point, we will all have to become soldiers, we might all have to become soldiers. >> reporter: ukraine has accused russia of looting more than 30 museums, calling it the biggest art theft since the nazis in world war ii. in kherson, russian soldiers cut paintings from frames, dragged out priceless antiques and

cleaned out more than 10,000 works of art. even so, chorna told us, many museum workers wouldn't leave. >> how can i leave these things to be looted or destroyed? if i know it's the history that will last for generations. >> reporter: can you explain that passion to me? >> i might not be able to say that without emotions. but um, i think that -- well speaking of myself, i understand that the value of these items, it's much higher than the price of my life. >> reporter: higher than the price of your life? >> yes, yes because the scope of affect these artifacts can have on future generations, it's uncomparable to the scope of affect, me myself, a single

person, can do for the culture. >> reporter: chorna told us a top russian target was ukraine's priceless sythian gold collection at the melitopol museum. museum workers hastily hid the treasures in card board boxes in the museum's dank unfinished basement. when the russians invaded, they wasted no time before heading to the museum, threatening to shoot the locks off the door to break in. this cctv footage never broadcast before shows the russians harassing employees, searching the museum, stashing what they took in white cloth sacks. that morning, they left without finding the gold, undeterred, a group of soldiers turned up at the door of museum director leila ibrahimova and kidnapped her. they put a bag over your head and kidnapped you? >> translator: i was very scared, she told us. there were eight of them.

they were wearing balaclavas a carried mushouldn't guns. one soldier did all the talking. they turned my house upside down and then they put a bag on her head and put me in the car. ibrahimova is in hiding so we agreed not to show her face. she told us the russians interrogated her about the museum, but she refused to cooperate. they let her go. but when her name later surfaced on a russian execution list, she fled the country. >> translator: my life was at risk, she told us. and staying would jeopardize my colleagues, my family. i was afraid my husband and son would be searched again. >> reporter: in the end, the russians found the gold, 198 ancient gold artifacts worth untold millions. the russians plunder has all the earmarks of a war crime, according to vitaliy tytych, a criminal lawyer of 30 years. what tells you that this was

deliberate? he leads a new unit of the ukrainian military investigating russia's targeting of heritage sites. intentionally looting or destroying cultural property during a war is a crime. but tytych told us, the russians have flipped the law on its head. >> translator: the russians keep saying they're evacuating these artifacts to safeguard them during the fighting, he told us. and they will return them when the war is over. that is a lie. and we are ready to prove it. >> reporter: but tytych told us he's under no illusions. there have only been two convictions for cultural war crimes since the law was passed in 1954. so ukraine wants to prosecute russia for war crimes. how likely do you think they will actually be prosecuted?

>> translator: i'm worried, he told us. the international treaties to prevent war crimes have not proven effective. nor, he said, has the international criminal court but that's all we've got. >> okay. let's go in. >> reporter: in the village of lukashivka, outside chernihiv, museum director ihor poshyvailo showed us what was left after the russians set up a base camp inside this church a protected architectural monument. this is really something. in the battle to force the russians out, a massive fire demolished the church's historic frescos. >> as also, you can see -- >> reporter: behind it still have the cross here. >> yeah. so the church itself had so many layers of history and culture. but everything is lost now. >> reporter: in the knave, this was all that was left. poshyvailo told us this war is

about more than land. >> this is a war against our historical memory, against our being ukrainian. >> reporter: you said before against your soul. >> against, exactly -- against our soul. against everything which makes us ukrainians and different from russia. and this war has the signs of being a genocide war against ukrainian nation. >> reporter: genocide? you consider this genocide? >> yes. because it's an attempt to totally destroy ukraine and ukrainian nation. >> reporter: but it will never work, poshyvailo told us. the more the russians attack, the more resilient ukrainians become. we saw proof of that at the holy dormition cathedral in kyiv. a 3d laser scanner was meticulously capturing every architectural detail so that if disaster strikes the church can be rebuilt.

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>> stuart janney is a man whose pedigree is legendary in the horse racing world. his family once owned the champion thoroughbred seabiscuit. as chairman of the jockey club, an organization that registers thoroughbreds, janney testified before congress in 2018 and called for establishing a national anti-doping program. >> this issue is extremely important to the thoroughbred industry and especially the jockey club. which has been advocating for medication reform in our sport for decades. >> reporter: in a word, could you describe what horse racing regulation has been like in the last 50 years? >> a failure. an increasingly so. >> it's gotten worse? >> it's gotten worse. and quite frankly states have not done their job. >> reporter: for decades, the sport was entirely overseen by state racing commissions that struggled to stop repeat drug violations, notably by the sport's most high-profile trainer bob baffert.

he has been cited for dozens of drug violations in connection with some of his horses over the last four decades. he was suspended by churchill downs in 2021 after his horse medina spirit won the kentucky derby but was later disqualified after testing positive for a banned substance. i have to tell you when you talk about something that sounds like it is institutionalized as corruption has been -- >> yeah. >> reporter: i don't know how you clean that up. >> i think you put people away. you send them out of the sport. and some of them go to jail. >> in march of 2020, a set of sweeping federal indictments laid out the extent of the corruption with doping and animal cruelty on full display at the highest levels of the sport. >> these animals were injected and force fed all manner of illegal and experimental drugs. >> reporter: according to the indictments, veterinarians and trainers plotted to give horses banned substances they call

monkey and red acid to make them run faster, including the same kind of blood builders cyclist lance armstrong took. they also used painkillers including snake venom that deadened nerves so the horses could run through injuries. the fbi said it led to broken legs, cardiac issues and in some cases death. >> what actually happened to the horses amounted to nothing less than abuse. >> reporter: using a trove of wiretaps the justice department charged 33 veterinarians, trainers and drug distributors. including some of the biggest names in the business, like jason service, who trained maximum security, the first place finish at the 2019 kentucky derby before the horse was disqualified by interference by drifting outside his lane. prosecutors also charged top earning trainer jorge navarro heard on this expletive wire trap bragging to another trainer about how the drugs made his horse run faster. >> these [ bleep ] galloped.

galloped. yes. injectable, small bottle. >> reporter: navarro's reputation for doping horses was such an open secret he went by the nickname the juice man and wore it on his shoes like a badge of honor. >> the juice man. >> reporter: that's him on the right in the dark pink shirt. >> that's the juice. that's the vegetable juice. >> reporter: navarro administered banned drugs to one of his most famous horses xy jet ahead of a race in dubai where the horse won a $1.5 million pp. i gave it to him through the mouth. the following year navarro announced that xy jet died by a heart attack. it stood out to sean richards, the lead fbi agent on the case. >> in those wiretaps, you hear navarro telling another trainer how close he came to getting busted. he says he would have been

caught, quote, pumping and pumping and fuming every horse that ran that day. you hear that and you think what? >> we're right where we need to be. you know, we have a really, really good subject identified and we're getting fantastic evidence. >> reporter: he spent his childhood on a horse farm and his career busting russian mobsters. both proved invaluable in infiltrating the dark side of the horse racing world. it didn't take long for agent richards to figure out that vets and drug distributors were constantly finding ways to outsmart the testing system. >> they would change one molecule in that sequence and now even if they had a test, if they don't have the latest test for that substance, they'll never find it. >> reporter: so an investigator comes in with a test, looking for this drug, they tweak it by a molecule here or there -- >> now your test is no good. if it's not testable, they can't get in trouble for it. >> reporter: this game of cat and mouse that they're playing

to stay ahead of investigators is how dangerous to the horses being injected? >> it's terrible. you don't know what's in those substances. >> reporter: much of the evidence in the investigation began with one man's gut feeling. new york commercial real estate magnet jeff goral is an owner of meadow land's racetrack in new jersey. the biggest venue in the country for harness racing, a niche betting sport where horses pull drivers in carts. what had you seen that made you suspicious that drugs were that rampant. >> you would see horses that were going a certain speed and then the new trainer would take over and the next week the horse would be two seconds faster. >> reporter: and that in your opinion is a giant red flag. >> it's impossible. >> reporter: it's impossible. >> it's impossible to get a horse to go two seconds faster and you would see it consistently. >> reporter: what do you think drove these guys? >> greed. the same thing that drives everybody. >> reporter: so gorell

outrighted banned trainers he suspected of doping and hired retired state police officer brice cody to conduct surprise blood and urine tests. >> if you wanted to race here, you had to sign an agreement that said that we can show up at any time and ask your veterinarian to supply us with a drug sample and we can do it whatever we want with it. >> reporter: unannounced testing. >> unannounced. that's the key just like baseball and football. >> reporter: and what were the results? >> most of the samples came back negative but some came back for drugs that nobody knew about. >> reporter: he then hired the investigative firm five stones. >> five stones intelligence, for such a time as this. >> reporter: stuart janney and the jockey club hired five stones which worked for the world anti-doping agencies independent commission investigating russian doping in track and field. did you give them any specific instructions in terms of who they should or should not go after? >> yes. i said i'm not interested in you

going and finding a relatively unimportant person working in somebody's barn that has made a bet they shouldn't have made or done something that's, you know, immaterial to what we're talking about. >> reporter: you wanted big fish. >> i want you to go after the important people that i think are corrupting this sport. >> reporter: janney got what he wanted. five stones passed its leads to the fbi sean richards who gathered a mountain of evidence, including this wiretap where according to investigators, trainers jason service and jorge navarro are heard stressing just how bad it would be if they got caught with illicit drugs. >> we can't do it in broad daylight. we have to do it -- >> no, no, no. keep it in my car. >> what about -- i am. i don't want people see [ bleep ], we're dead. we're dead. >> reporter: and investigators say this wiretap captured trainer nick cirik talking about covering up for navarro. >> you know how many horses he [ bleep ] killed and broke down i made him disappear.

>> reporter: the fbi found hundreds of viles linked to seth fishman boasting act his drugs. >> i'm mostly looking to -- >> that's why we can speak in person. go to something for pain or you can do something to increase blood. >> yes. >> and there's many options. >> reporter: you're a horse guy. >> uh-huh. >> where does that sit with you? >> it's completely wrong. to pump these horses full of stuff that you don't know what's in for, you know, a potential chance to win at a higher race. that's disgusting behavior. >> reporter: seth fishman was sentenced to 11 years in prison. the juiceman, jorge navarro and nick sirik were sentenced to five years. this past july, jason service to five, all for doping-related crimes. how long is it going to take to clean this up?

>> it probably will take years to be truly confident that we've got a fully clean sport. >> reporter: since hisa's anti-doping program opened its doors in may, 33 trainers in the united states have been suspended for banned substances. this past summer at the saratoga race course in new york, 13 more horses died. those deaths are under investigation. cbs sports hq is presented by progressive insurance. i'm james brown with the scores from the nfl today. baker's bravado boosts the bucs, bashing it titans. the packers must hate that love didn't win today. the patriots forgot to pack offense for frankfurt. the play propels the purple people eaters past the saints. no seriously, c.j. stroud is him. for 24/7 news and highlights go to cbssportshq.com.

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