A prominent Brooklyn journalist said Friday she was “shocked” to learn she was the target of two New Yorkers hired by an Iranian agent who was also tasked by the Tehran regime to assassinate former President Donald Trump before the election.

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American author and activist who’s an outspoken critic of the Tehran regime, said in a X video that FBI agents informed her the alleged would-be killers had planned to murder her.

“Whatever I do, hurts them so bad they want to kill me,” she said. “That makes me more determined to give voice to Iranian women, Iranian men, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder to bring the dictatorship down.”

A bombshell complaint unveiled Friday accuses Brooklyn native Carlisle “Pop” Rivera, 49, and Staten Islander Jonathan Loadholt, 36, of engaging in a murder-for-hire plot with Iranian agent Farhad Shakeri, 51.

The 26-page complaint alleges that Shakeri was tasked by an unnamed official in Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to assassinate Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign’s final weeks.

The shadowy official told Shakeri to focus on killing Trump and put aside other assassination plots, including a planned hit on Alinejad, the complaint states.

Shakeri’s handler allegedly offered him $1.5 million to kill Alinejad, who had been targeted for assassination by the Tehran regime in the past, the feds said.

In turn, Shakeri hired Rivera – a prison buddy who served time with him in New York penitentiaries during the 2000s – and Loadholt to stalk Alinejad starting in February, the complaint alleges.

He allegedly first paid them $1,000 to surveil Alinejad at a planned public speaking event at Fairfield University in Connecticut – an engagement that Alinejad said was canceled after a warning from the FBI.

But over the following months, Shakeri continued to pay Loadholt and Rivera to stalk Alinejad outside her Brooklyn home, often sending photos, according to the complaint.

Talk turned to murder in April, when Shakeri and Rivera discussed a $100,000 payment to “finish the work,” the complaint states.

Rivera and Loadholt, who expected an advance payment of $10,000, claimed to have trouble finding an opportune time to kill Alinejad, court papers state.

“This b—h is hard to catch, bro,” Rivera complained to Shakeri, the complaint states.

At one point, Rivera used $3,150 from Shakeri to buy a gun and use a car in a planned drive-by shooting, court papers allege.

Both Loadholt and Rivera also allegedly had access to guns – the complaint includes several photos of firearms uploaded to their cloud online storage accounts.

The pair were arrested this week and appeared Thursday in Manhattan federal court before US Magistrate Judge Jennifer Willis, who ordered them detained pending trial.

Shakeri, who is believed to be in Iran, denied plotting to kill Alinejad in telephone interviews with the FBI, which he gave in hopes of securing an unnamed person a more lenient sentence in an US prison, according to the complaint.

Alinejad, who is currently in Berlin, told Fox News she got “goosebumps” learning about the two alleged would-be killers’ plans to murder her outside her Brooklyn home.

“I have a message for President Trump now, because he said that he wants to negotiate with the regime: this is the regime,” she said Friday. “Assassinating and killing is in the DNA of the Islamic Republic.”

Neighbors of Rivera, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994, said he moved from his Staten Island home that he shared with his girlfriend about two months ago.

“I’m shocked,” one told The Post. “We didn’t say much to each other —  hi and good morning.” 

“I would have never got that impression from him though. Not that he would do that,” the neighbor said.

“We talked about cars, motorcycles — even kids because he has a son,” another neighbor said. “But never anything like that. 

“This just shows you that you never know who your neighbors are.”