The Hunt: An Iranian connection in the Tajikistan killing of 2 DC residents

Robin Simcox on the killings of Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan (J.J. Green, WTOP national security correspondent)

WASHINGTON — American cyclists Jay Austin and his partner, Lauren Geoghegan, both of D.C., were killed by ISIS operatives in Tajikistan on July 29.

On this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP’s national security correspondent J.J. Green, Robin Simcox, Margaret Thatcher Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, says their killers had an unexplained and illogical connection to Iran.

J.J. Green

JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.

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