Two men tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were sentenced to prison for a failed murder-for-hire plot targeting ...

A plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home came “chillingly near success,” prosecutors told a judge who will sentence two purported Russian mobsters.

A Manhattan federal court jury convicted Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov of murder-for-hire and attempted murder in aid of racketeering in March.

Two men were sentenced in federal court on Wednesday in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident and journalist from Brooklyn. Russian mobsters Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, who were ...