Khalid Mehdiyev was sent to America to establish a beachhead for his gang. The organization then gave him a mission: Kill ...

ToI's diplomatic reporter talks about the complex historical ties between the two peoples -- and why Israel was arming Iran ...

Khalid Mehdiyev admitted to trying to kill journalist Masih Alinejad. Now he’s testifying against the men he says put him up to it.

I was trying to get into her life,” Khalid Mehdiyev said of targeting activist Masih Alinejad. “I was trying to get the easy ...

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

Prosecutors say figures in Tehran hired two men to kill Masih Alinejad, a journalist who had criticized Iran’s head scarf ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A self-professed member of a Russian organized crime group said on Tuesday he once tried to kill an Iranian-American female journalist and activist, making the admission in ...

Khalid Mehdiyev, a self-professed assassin linked to a Russian criminal organization, admitted to attempting to kill Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad. Mehdiyev was hired by associates ...

A prosecutor has told jurors that two defendants were hired guns for the government of Iran in a plot to assassinate an ...

Prosecutors claim the suspects, allegedly members of an Eastern European crime group linked to Iran, were hired to carry out ...

The trial of two men charged in an alleged Iranian government-sponsored murder-for-hire plot that targeted a prominent ...