On July 28, 2022, this murder-for-hire scheme involving Russian mobsters and the Iranian regime targeting a defiant dissident ...

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

Born in 1976 in a small village in Iran’s Mazandaran province, Alinejad grew up in a conservative household where veiling was ...

Two Eastern European Organized Crime Leaders Convicted of Murder for Hire Targeting U.S.-Based Journalist on Behalf of Iranian Government ...

Two men have been convicted of hiring a Yonkers resident to kill an Iranian American journalist. Khalid Mehdiyev testified at the trial, stating that he bought an AK47 to kill Masih Alinejad in her ...

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 ...

A federal jury on Thursday convicted two men with ties to the Iranian government in a murder-for-hire conspiracy targeting a ...

The journalist, Masih Alinejad, was targeted for her criticisms of Iran's human rights abuses across the globe.

Chillingly, the plot to murder this Iranian dissident culminated over 6,000 miles from Iran, on U.S. soil, right here in New York, when a hitman with an AK-47 camped outside ...

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

Two Eastern European mobsters were convicted in a chilling plot to assassinate an Iranian-American journalist on US soil—at ...