Iranian journalist and murder-for-hire target Masih Alinejad described in court Tuesday the moment she saw her bungling would-be killer staring straight into her eyes through her pristine ...

Masih Alinejad started rattling Iran’s rulers as a teenager. Now, men whom prosecutors say arranged for an assassin to kill her in New York are on trial in Manhattan. By Colin Moynihan Just a ...

A charismatic journalist from Iran who prosecutors say was targeted by her former homeland's government for assassination has testified at the trial of two men accused in the plot.

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 ...

Earlier this month, two men were convicted in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist and women’s rights activist living in New York. Her attempted assassination was orchestrated ...

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 organization then gave him a mission: Kill Masih Alinejad. By Colin Moynihan Khalid Mehdiyev returned a phone call in the summer of 2022 from a fellow member of the Russian mob, Polad Omarov.

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 ...

Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad Testifies at the Trial of Two Men Accused of Plotting to Kill Her NEW YORK (AP) — A journalist from Iran who prosecutors said was the target of an assassination ...