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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Two eastern European gangsters never plotted to murder exiled Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad, despite claims to the contrary by a bumbling “pizza delivery hitman,” one of the ...

A journalist from Iran testified Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of hiring a hitman to kidnap and kill her in 2022 over her criticism of the Iranian regime. Mashi Alinejad testified for ...

Azerbaijani hitman testifies at trial of two men accused of hiring him to kill a VOA host who is a critic of Iran ...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK - 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 ...

Closing arguments were held at the trial of two men, accused of having been hired by people tied to the Iranian government to murder the Iranian-American journalist and human rights activist, Masih ...

Two Eastern European mobsters were convicted in a chilling plot to assassinate an Iranian-American journalist on US soil—at the behest of the Iranian government. A Manhattan federal jury found Rafat ...

A jury has found two Eastern European individuals guilty of conspiring to kill US-based journalist Masih Alinejad after being hired to do so by Iran. Polad O ...

Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad expressed gratitude toward the Trump administration and the United States after two of her would-be assassins were convicted this month. The Justice Department ...