Masih Alinejad, NY and Iran

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.”
Iran ‘wanted desperately’ to kill dissident journalist Masih Alinejad in NYC, feds say as murder-for-hire trial starts
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 statements
‘I was trying 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.
Bungling hitman worked day job at pizza shop while plotting to kill exiled Iranian journalist in NYC
This trial now has its own pizza connection. Bungling hitman Khalid Mehdiyev admitted in court today that instead of a cool, collected, globe-trotting assassin, he was actually just a guy who worked at a pizza joint — and that might explain the raft of errors he made when he tried to clip an exiled Iranian-American journalist in Brooklyn three years ago.
Who tried to kill Iranian activist Masih Alinejad?
ALBAWABA - A member of a Russian organized crime group confessed during a testimony at a US trial of two associates on Tuesday that he attempted to assa
How a hitman's comedy of errors exposed bid to kill journalist Masih Alinejad
Trial over an alleged Iran-backed plot to assassinate American journalist Masih Alinejad reached a New York city federal court
Trial begins over a plot to kill an Iranian dissident in NYC
Two men charged in an alleged Iranian government-sponsored plot to kill a prominent Iranian journalist and human rights activist went on trial Monday as a federal judge in New York City assured prospective jurors that “nobody got killed.
How a Russian Mobster Stalked an Iranian Dissident in Brooklyn
Khalid Mehdiyev was sent to America to establish a beachhead for his gang. The organization then gave him a mission: Kill ...
How A Hitman's Fast Food Order, Bad Texting Skills Foiled A Murder Plot
It was July 2022 when 27-year-old Khalid Mehdiyev, a self-proclaimed member of the Russian mob, set off on a mission to ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Trial to begin in New York for men accused of planning assassination of VOA host
More than two years have passed since police stopped a man who was loitering outside the New York home of Iranian dissident ...