Rafat Amirov and Polad Omaroy, both allegedly members of the Russian mob, will be sentenced in September and are facing decades behind bars. CBS News New York's Kristine Johnson reports.

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.

A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City. Prosecutors say it involved a murder-for-hire scheme financed by ...

The Iranian government wanted to kidnap and kill dissident journalist Masih Alinejad for shining a light on the regime’s torturous oppression of women, a Manhattan jury heard in opening ...

The dissident writer testified for more than two hours at the trial of two men charged with trying to kidnap and kill her in 2022. Prosecutors say the murder plot was orchestrated from Iran to ...

Two eastern European gangsters never plotted to murder exiled Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad, despite claims to the contrary by a bumbling “pizza delivery hitman,” one of the ...

The plot to kill Alinejad was disrupted by the U.S. and has already led to federal murder-for-hire charges. But the new charges are the first to link the high-ranking Revolutionary Guard official ...

Masih Alinejad blows a kiss to supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Tuesday, March 18, 2025.

NEW YORK (AP) — Two men charged in an alleged Iranian government-sponsored plot to kill a prominent Iranian journalist and human rights activist went on trial ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran in an assassination plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American human rights activist.