Masih Alinejad, a prominent critic of the regime, is a leader of the movement to free Iranian women from the compulsory hijab ...

The defendants, who are from Azerbaijan and operated from overseas, are accused of hiring another Azerbaijani man, who lived ...

Two men who U.S. prosecutors say belong to a Russian organized crime group were convicted of involvement in an unsuccessful Iran-backed plot to kill a prominent New York-based dissident and journalist ...

Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were crime bosses in the Russian mob. Their lawyers argued that they were innocent and trial evidence was flawed. Alinejad, 48, was ...

MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal jury started deliberating Thursday an attempted murder-for-hire case that could see two purported ...

The convictions brought some measure of resolution to what U.S. officials have described as an unrelenting retaliation effort against Masih Alinejad.

The intended victim, Masih Alinejad, is a journalist and activist with nearly 9 million Instagram followers and the personal enmity of Iran’s Supreme Leader, who calls her “the American agent.”The ...

Prosecutors say Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov hired a Yonkers, New York-based gangster to gun Alinejad down outside of her Brooklyn home.

Khalid Mehdiyev was living in Yonkers and was paid $30K by two mobsters to kill an Iranian dissident, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Polad Omarov and Rafat Amirov were only trying to “scam” Iranian officials out of $500,000 in a bizarre scheme that involved sending would-be assassin Khalid Mehdiyev outside Alinejad’s ...

He said two high-level members of the Russian mob — Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov — were paid by the government of Iran to organize a plot to kill Alinejad in 2022. The evidence, he added, was ...

A prosecutor has told jurors that two defendants were hired guns for the government of Iran in a plot to assassinate an Iran-born journalist at her Brooklyn residence three years ago.