US EditionIranian dissident Masih Alinejad set to testify at trial of men accused of plotting to kill her
- Masih Alinejad testified in federal court about a botched assassination attempt on her life on July 28, 2022, when Khalid Mehdiyev was arrested outside her home with weapons.
- Alinejad claimed that she received threats from the Iranian government, which has denied involvement in the assassination plot.
- Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov are accused of hiring Mehdiyev for $500,000 but pleaded not guilty to multiple charges.
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‘He Was Gigantic’: Woman Testifies She Saw Assassin Lurking in Her Brooklyn Flower Garden, as She Confronts the Men Who Hired Him To Murder Her, ‘on Orders of Iran’
Prosecutors say the highest levels of the Iranian regime wanted Masih Alinejad dead – either brought back to Iran to be hanged, or murdered wherever she lived – due to her vocal opposition to their rule.
Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad describes chilling moment she saw amatuerish would-be assassin staring at her
Iranian journalist and murder-for-hire target Masih Alinejad described in federal court Tuesday the moment she saw Khalid Mehdiyev staring straight into her eyes as he allegedly planned to kill her.
Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad testifies at trial of men accused in plot to kill her
The dissident writer testified for more than two hours at the trial of two men charged with trying to kidnap and kill her in 2022. Prosecutors say the murder plot was orchestrated from Iran to stop her from speaking out about human rights abuses in her home country.
Iranian journalist faces would-be assassins in court after they allegedly tried to murder her in Brooklyn
Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad came face-to-face on Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom with the men whom her native country’s government allegedly hired to
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