A jury recognized two guilty men from all the charges to try to kill Iranian dissident Masih AlinejadWho works as a journalist and lives in New York.
Rafat Amirov and Polad Omoy, both allegedly members of the Russian crowd, will be sentenced in September and are faced with decades behind bars. The accusations brought against them included the murder for the rental, the possession of firearms and the conspiracy in order to commit money laundering.
“I am relieved that after almost three years, the men who plotted to kill me were guilty. But do not be mistaken, the real brains of this crime are still in power in Iran. I am waiting for the day when Ali Khamenei and his revolutionary terrorist guards are confronted with justice, I want them to be punished,” said Alinejad outside.
“Right now, I’m bombed with emotions. I cried, I have laughing, I even danced. Because today is not only my survival; it is the defeat and humiliation of a diet that believes that he can silence his criticisms with bullets.
How the verdict fell
The jury obtained the case just before 1 p.m. Thursday and later sent a note asking for testimonies, but lawyers needed some time to collect equipment. Even before the jury obtained the requested equipment, they sent another note saying that they had returned a verdict.
The prosecutors told the jurors during the closing arguments that the government of Iran had put a bonus of $ 500,000 on the head of Alinejad, who lives in Brooklyn, to silence her and that she was the target of several plots of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the removal.
The man who said he was hired to kill her was arrested in 2022 and testified during the trial.
Who is Masih Alinejad?
Alinejad said She left the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2009 After taking her passport and made her sign an agreement that she would not cover the elections there. She moved to the United States and covered her from here.
Alinejad, who contributed to the voice of America, took the position on Tuesday And he was asked if the regime had made accusations against it because of this contract.
She declared in court: “I was accused of being a CIA agent”, among others, MI6 and President Trump.
In 2022, she participated in two campaigns: boycotting Iranian sporting events and a day of action calling for women in Iran to remove their hijab.
She said in court: “My social media is like my weapon.” She said that her accounts were a place where she published videos that women sent her from Iran of themselves on foot unveiled and harassed by the police of morality.
The same year, prosecutors said that there was a plot of the Iranian government to assassinate it.
The man who concluded a advocacy agreement and testified for the government said that he was in the Russian crowd and was hired to kill Alinejad. He took photos and videos inside his house and was stopped nearby for exceeding a stop panel. An AK-47 was in its back seat.
Alinejad described seeing him speak by phone one day outside his house.
“I saw the big guy,” she said. “He was gigantic.”
Alice Gainer
