Three men were arrested in connection with a plot to kill Masih Alinejad. Alinejad is an Iranian-American journalist who has spoken out against human rights abuses.
Three members of an Eastern European criminal gang with ties to the Iranian government have been indicted in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American human rights activist and VOA Persian TV host, the Justice Department announced Friday. Rafat Amirov, Polad Omarov and Khalid Mehdiyev are in custody and face charges of murder…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors have charged three men with attempting to assassinate a prominent critic of Iran's government who wa...
Prosecutors on Friday announced new arrests in what they've called a plot by Iran to murder an Iranian dissident journalist living in Brooklyn, New York.
(NEW YORK) — Six months after a man with a loaded AK-47-style rifle was caught outside the Brooklyn, New York, home of a prominent Iranian dissident journalist, federal prosecutors on Friday announced new arrests in what they’ve called a murder-for-hire plot by Iran. On Friday, […]
Members of Eastern European Organized Crime Group Allegedly Plotted to Murder a U.S. Citizen of Iranian Origin in New York City Who Has Publicly Opposed the Iranian Government