Exiled Iranian journalist and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad leaves the Manhattan federal courthouse on March 18, 2025, after delivering witness testimony in the federal murder-for-hire trial ...

FILE - Masih Alinejad, is interviewed outside Manhattan federal court, April 7, 2023, in New York. The Justice Department says a suspect in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Masih Alinejad, 48, a prominent Iranian American human rights activist attends an interview with the ...

The Iranian government “wanted desperately” to kidnap and kill dissident journalist Masih Alinejad on the streets of New York City for shining a light on the regime’s torturous oppression of ...

Two members of an Eastern European criminal organization were “hired guns for the government of Iran” in a plot to assassinate an Iran-born journalist at her New York City residence three ...

The first Fikrat Amirov Republican Music Festival has come to an end, Azernews reports. The closing ceremony took place at Azerbaijan State Academic Philharmonic Hall. The festival was organized by ...

NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - A self-professed member of a Russian organized crime group said on Tuesday he once tried to kill an Iranian-American female journalist and activist, making the ...

Prosecutors say figures in Tehran hired two men to kill Masih Alinejad, a journalist who had criticized Iran’s head scarf laws. By Colin Moynihan In the summer of 2022, a group of people ...

The federal trial of two suspects kicked off Monday after the pair were charged in a thwarted plot to kill a U.S.-based critic of the Iranian government on behalf of the Islamic Republic.

More than two years have passed since police stopped a man who was loitering outside the New York home of Iranian dissident and journalist Masih Alinejad. Inside his car, they found an assault ...

Two Men Face US Trial Over Iran-Backed Plot to Kill Dissident By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two men accused of being members of a Russian organized crime group will face trial in the United ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two men accused of being members of a Russian organized crime group will face trial in the United States on Monday over what prosecutors call an unsuccessful Tehran-backed ...