Sens. Joni Ernst, Elissa Slotkin, Jim Banks and Maggie Hassan introduced the DETERRENCE Act to crack down on plots targeting ...

The convictions brought some measure of resolution to what U.S. officials have described as an unrelenting retaliation effort against Masih Alinejad. By Colin Moynihan For nearly a decade ...

Masih Alinejad, a journalist and prominent critic of the Iranian regime, was in the garden of her Brooklyn home when she locked eyes with the hitman hired to assassinate her. It was late July ...

The purported hitman was arrested in July 2022 before he could kill journalist Masih Alinejad, leading to a trial of two Russian mobsters who organized the murder plot, Assistant US Attorney ...

A jury has found two men guilty on all counts of trying to kill Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, who works as a journalist and lives in New York City. Rafat Amirov and Polad Omaroy, both ...

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Two gangsters were convicted Thursday of ordering a bumbling hitman to kill exiled Iranian-American dissident Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn — to claim a bounty from the barbarous Iranian regime.

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 ...

NEW YORK — Two purported mobsters were convicted Thursday of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that ...

A federal jury in New York found Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov guilty of plotting to assassinate reporter Masih Alinejad in July 2022. They face decades in prison. Prosecutors said Iran's ...

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad gestures to supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Mar. 18, 2025. Credit - Seth Wenig—AP ...