Suspects accused of Iran-backed plot to kill journalist on American soil face trial
Two suspects are facing trial in New York on Monday after being charged in a thwarted plot to kill Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad on U.S. soil.
Bumbling hitman botched murder of Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad in NY: ‘I was trying to get the easy way to kill her’
I was trying to get into her life,” Khalid Mehdiyev said of targeting activist Masih Alinejad. “I was trying to get the easy way to kill her.”
How An Assassination Plot Against An Iranian-American Journalist Fell Apart
It was July 2022 when 27-year-old Khalid Mehdiyev, a self-proclaimed member of the Russian mob, set off on a mission to assassinate Iranian-American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad
At US Trial, Gunman Admits to Trying to Kill Iranian Journalist
Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarev sit during their trial's jury selection, in which the two are charged with murder-for-hire and money laundering in a thwarted Tehran-backed assassination attempt of an Iranian American journalist and activist at a courtroom in New York,
Jury Hears Details of Failed Plot to Kill Iranian Dissident in New York
Prosecutors say figures in Tehran hired two men to kill Masih Alinejad, a journalist who had criticized Iran’s head scarf laws.
‘I was there to try to kill the journalist,’ gunman tells New York court
Azerbaijani hitman testifies at trial of two men accused of hiring him to kill a VOA host who is a critic of Iran
At Trial's Start, Prosecutor Blames Iran for Plot to Assassinate Outspoken Dissident
A prosecutor has told jurors that two defendants were hired guns for the government of Iran in a plot to assassinate an Iran-born journalist at her Brooklyn residence three years ago
‘We have to kill her’: Mobster gives chilling look into foiled plot to kill Iranian journalist
Prosecutors say that Iranian officials commissioned two purported Russian gang members to kill journalist and Iranian exile Masih Alinejad.
Iran ‘wanted desperately’ to kill dissident journalist Masih Alinejad in NYC, feds say as murder-for-hire trial starts
The Iranian government “wanted desperately” to kidnap and kill dissident journalist Masih Alinejad on the streets of City for shining a light on the regime’s torturous oppression of
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By contrast with the sleek subterfuge depicted in spy movie Black Bag, real-world espionage in the Putin era — as shown by sobering documentary Antidote — is a grubby, blunt-force affair. The film ...
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NMG journalist, NUP leaders attacked
Mr Kibwika is the second NMG-U journalist to be attacked by armed men ahead of the by-election. Ms Nanyanzi said the attack ...
Russian spy ring plans to kill journalist 'beyond imagination'
Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev told the BBC one method was to bludgeon him to death, and another involved using a ...