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Two men sentenced to 25 years over Iran-backed plot to kill dissident
Convicted Russian mobsters received 25-year sentences for a failed $500,000 Iran-backed assassination attempt on activist Masih Alinejad, a vocal critic of Iran's regime, prosecutors said.
- Two men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to assassinate campaigning reporter Alinejad.
- The men, members of an eastern European criminal gang, were contracted by Iranian officials to murder Alinejad, a prominent dissident campaigner against Iranian authorities.
- In July 2022, a man hired to carry out the assassination was arrested near Alinejad's New York home with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle.
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Two men sentenced to 25 years over Iran-backed plot to kill dissident
Two men convicted of murder-for-hire charges were each sentenced in New York on Wednesday to 25 years in prison over what prosecutors called a failed Tehran-backed plot to kill an Iranian dissident living in the U.S.
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Two Russians face sentencing in plot to kill Iranian-American journalist
New York: A plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home came “chillingly near success,” prosecutors told a judge who will sentence two purported Russian mobsters. Prosecutors are seeking 55-year prison terms for Rafat Amirov, 46, and Polad Omarov, 41, at their sentencing on Wednesday, October 29, in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors said Amirov, of Iran, and Omarov, of Georgia, were crime bosses in the …
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