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.
“The jury has reached a verdict,” the presiding district judge, Colleen McMahon, announced at 4:30pm in the afternoon. The note came as a surprise. Earlier, the jury had requested to see the testimony of a key witness, Khalid Mehdiyev, and the attorneys were still going through the transcript, and had not yet sent the hard copy to the jury room, when the note came in that the verdict was ready. It appeared that the issue regarding the controversial witness had been resolved without the requested documentation.
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