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, a journalist and prominent critic of the Iranian regime, was in the garden of her Brooklyn home when she locked eyes with the hitman hired to assassinate her. It was late July ...

The Iranian government “wanted desperately” to kidnap and kill dissident journalist Masih Alinejad on the streets of New York City for shining a light on the regime’s torturous oppression of ...

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident and journalist who is now a United States citizen, took the stand Tuesday in the trial of the men accused of trying to kill her. Prosecutors say it was an ...

Jurors in Manhattan federal court heard Wednesday how Khalid Mehdiyev — a 27-year-old self-professed member of the Russian mob — inevitably tipped off his target, activist Masih Alinejad ...

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 ...

Masih Alinejad, the charismatic Iranian dissident and journalist who prosecutors say was targeted by her former homeland’s government for assassination, is set to testify Tuesday at the trial of ...

Two gangsters were convicted Thursday of ordering a bumbling hitman to kill exiled Iranian-American dissident Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn — to claim a bounty from the barbarous Iranian regime.

Masih Alinejad started rattling Iran’s rulers as a teenager. Now, men whom prosecutors say arranged for an assassin to kill her in New York are on trial in Manhattan. By Colin Moynihan Just a ...