‘He Was Gigantic’: Woman Testifies She Saw Assassin Lurking in Her Brooklyn Flower Garden, as She Confronts the Men Who Hired Him To Murder Her, ‘on Orders of Iran’
Prosecutors say the highest levels of the Iranian regime wanted Masih Alinejad dead – either brought back to Iran to be hanged, or murdered wherever she lived – due to her vocal opposition to their rule.
The Iranian dissident and journalist, Masih Alinejad, faced the two men accused of plotting to assassinate her on behalf of the Iranian government at their trial on Tuesday. The journalist told the jury how she saw the hitman, who’d allegedly been hired to shoot her, in her driveway and about her decade-long campaign against Iran’s strict hijab law that forces women to wear the religious headdress.
“You can put that thing down now,” the presiding district judge, Colleen McMahon, told a detective, who was on the witness stand before Ms. Alinejad testified, holding an assault rifle in his hands.
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