Two Men Convicted in Failed Assassination Attempt — Ordered by Iran — on Iranian-American Woman in Brooklyn
The defendants, who are from Azerbaijan and operated from overseas, are accused of hiring another Azerbaijani man, who lived in the Bronx, to carry out the hit.
The two men accused of having been hired by people tied to the Iranian government to assassinate the Iranian-American journalist and human rights activist Masih Alinejad in New York City in the summer of 2022 were found guilty on all five counts at a federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Thursday.
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