Masih Alinejad, the target of the plot, fled Iran following the contentious 2009 presidential election and ensuing protest movement. She became a US citizen in 2019.

NEW YORK: A man who admitted to taking part in a plot to kill an Iranian-American journalist who is a prominent critic of Tehran was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison.…

A man who admitted to taking part in a plot to kill an Iranian American journalist who is a prominent critic of Tehran was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years