MARIE POHL
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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.
‘They Wanted Her Dead, Not in The Witness Box’: Prosecutors Make Case That Iran Set Up Botched Brooklyn Hit Against Iranian- American Woman
Over the course of the trial, prosecutors have been making the case that Iran orchestrated and paid for the failed hit.
‘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.
‘They Were Going To Gun Her Down at Home’: FBI Lays Out Links Between Iranian Spooks and Bumbling Assassins Plotting To Murder Brooklyn Woman
The FBI is blaming the plot on ‘The Bazghandi Network Defendants,’ Iranians said to be affiliated with the regime’s military elite.
‘As a Mother I Was Devastated’: Mom of ‘Hitman’ Tells Jury About Links Between Her Son and Two ‘Russian Mobsters’ Accused of Plotting Dissident’s Murder at Iran’s Bidding
Khalid Mehdiyev’s mother admitted helping her son in some of his criminal activity.
‘I Was There To Kill the Journalist’: Failed Assassin, Who Claims Iran Organized a Hit Job at Brooklyn, Is Grilled on the Witness Stand About a Lifetime of Murders, Extortion, and Deceit
Hanging over the trial and yet to be addressed: what proof do prosecutors have that Iran ordered the hit?
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