Masih Alinejad, a prominent critic of the regime, is a leader of the movement to free Iranian women from the compulsory hijab ...

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, the charismatic Iranian dissident and journalist who prosecutors say was targeted by her former homeland’s government for assassination, began testifying Tuesday at the trial of two ...

MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal jury started deliberating Thursday an attempted murder-for-hire case that could see two purported ...

A jury has found two men guilty of trying to kill Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad​, who works as a journalist and lives in New York City.

Born in 1976 in a small village in Iran’s Mazandaran province, Alinejad grew up in a conservative household where veiling was non-negotiable, even inside the home. Her early rebellion came in the form ...

The bumbling, bargain-bin hitman hired to assassinate an exiled Iranian-American journalist botched the high-stakes Brooklyn hit in spectacular fashion — including by trying to open her door ...

Two Eastern European mobsters were convicted in a chilling plot to assassinate an Iranian-American journalist on US soil—at the behest of the Iranian government. A Manhattan federal jury found Rafat ...

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.

Prosecutors say Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov hired a Yonkers, New York-based gangster to gun Alinejad down outside of her Brooklyn home.

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 Michael ...

New York (AP) — A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that prosecutors said was ...