A plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home came “chillingly near success,” prosecutors told a judge who will sentence two purported Russian mobsters.

Two men tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were sentenced to prison for a failed murder-for-hire plot targeting New York journalist and dissident Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home.

Two men were sentenced in federal court on Wednesday in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident and journalist from Brooklyn. Russian mobsters Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, who were ...

(NEW YORK) — Two men hired by Iran in a failed plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident, author and activist, at her New York City home in 2022 were sentenced to 25 years in prison on ...

Were it not for a traffic violation, a murder-for-hire scheme plotted in July 2022 on behalf of the Iranian government might have taken the life of an Iranian-American journalist and human rights ...

NEW YORK(AP) — Two purported Russian mobsters were each sentenced to 25 years behind bars Wednesday for hiring a hitman to kill Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home three ...

Oct. 30 (UPI) --Accepting a $500,000 contract to kill Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad earned Russians Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov each 25 years in prison on Thursday. U.S. District Court ...

Iranian activist Masih Alinejad joins Meet the Press NOW after a federal judge sentences two men hired by the Iranian regime to 25 years in prison for plotting to assassinate her in 2022. Florida Teen ...

Prosecutors said that Rafit Amirov and Polad Omarov were working for an Iranian general when they stalked Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn. She has sought women’s rights in the theocracy for years. By Colin ...

A pair of Russian mob associates were each sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday for their roles in organizing a failed hit on Iranian dissident journalist Masih Alinejad at her New York City ...