NEW YORK — Two members of an Eastern European criminal organization were “hired guns for the government of Iran” in a plot to assassinate an Iran-born journalist at her New York City residence three years ago, a prosecutor told a federal jury in an opening statement on Tuesday at the start of a trial for […]
At the trial of two men accused of plotting to assassinate Iranian-American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad in New York City, the prosecutor stated the men were hired by the Iranian government to silence Alinejad, who has been critical of Iran's human rights record and treatment of women. The defense argued their clients were not guilty and that the evidence was circumstantial, with one attorney claiming his client scammed the Iranian government.
