Prosecutors say that Iranian officials commissioned two purported Russian gang members to kill journalist and Iranian exile Masih Alinejad.

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.

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

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

It was July 2022 when 27-year-old Khalid Mehdiyev, a self-proclaimed member of the Russian mob, set off on a mission to assassinate Iranian-American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad

Trial over an alleged Iran-backed plot to assassinate American journalist Masih Alinejad reached a New York city federal court

The trial for two men accused in a murder-for-hire plot against Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad begins in NYC.

Prosecutors claim the suspects, allegedly members of an Eastern European crime group linked to Iran, were hired to carry out a murder on US soil in 2022. View on euronews

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.”