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Portrait of American-Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad

World Mar 30

How journalist Masih Alinejad survived multiple assassination plots by Iran

By Lisa Desjardins, Andrew Corkery, Juliet Fuisz, Gerard Edic

Nation Mar 20

Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarev appear in court in New York
Jury convicts 2 men of plotting to kill Iranian American author in New York City

Two purported mobsters were convicted Thursday of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that prosecutors said was financed by Iran's government.

By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press

World Aug 06

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Department of Justice Building is pictured
Pakistani man with ties to Iran is charged in U.S. political assassination plot

Court documents do not identify any of the potential targets. But U.S. officials acknowledged last month that a threat on Donald Trump’s life from Iran prompted additional security in the days before a Pennsylvania rally in which Trump was injured…

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

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