Niloufar Bahadorifar was charged with providing financial aid to the conspirators in July this year

"To he honest, emotionally I got angry. I got furious. Instead of just being scared it made me furious," Ms Alinejad told BBC News, describing how FBI agents came to her home to tell her that she was "not safe". The plotters even offered money to the writer's relatives in Iran to betray them, which they refused to do, the indictment contends.