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Two suspects face the trial on Monday after being accused in a frustrated plot to kill an American critic of the Iranian government In the name of the Islamic Republic.
Rafat Amirov de Iran and Polad Omarov, of the Czech Republic and Slovenia, will appear in the Federal Court in New York City after declaring himself innocent in the alleged plot of rent for rent, addressed to the journalist Masih Alinejad, according to Reuters. Prosecutors said both suspects were members of the Russian mafia and were hired by the body of the Revolutionary Guard of Iran,
“Finally, I will face the men hired by the Islamic Republic to kill me, here in New York,” Align, who is expected to testify, wrote in X. “Of course, it is not easy. But it is a great day. I am deeply grateful to my new country, the United States of America, for trying to keep me safe from the government of my biological country, I will go.
“At times like this, it is easy to feel nervous, scared or even broken, but your support elevates me,” he added. “Then, while I enter that courtroom, I will take your strength with me.”
The journalist and anti-Iraní Masih Alinejad is expected to testify today during judicial procedures in the Federal Court of Manhattan. (Fox News)
The trial in the Federal Court of Manhattan will begin with the jury selection on Monday, Reuters reported.
Amirov, Omarov and a third suspect, Khalid Mehdiyev by Yonkers, New York, were charged by the Department of Justice In early 2023.
“A Federal Court in New York slowed today the murder for rent and money laundering charges against three members of a criminal organization in Eastern Europe for consigning the murder of an American citizen who has been attacked by Iran’s government for speaking against the human rights abuse of the regime,” said the Department of Justice at that time.
The authorities said the murder plot was Iran’s second attempt to Sangria Objective. The FBI frustrated Tehran 2021 kidnapping attempt to try to bring it back to Iran.
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A sketch of the Court shows Rafat Amirov that appears for a position reading hearing before Judge Magistrada Sarah Cave in a Court Chamber in New York on January 27, 2023 in relation to the alleged plot of murder for rent. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
“The victim in this case was attacked to exercise the rights to which all American citizens are entitled. The victim advertised the human rights abuses of the Iranian government; the discriminatory treatment of women; the suppression of participation and democratic expression; and the use of arbitrary prison, torture and execution,” said the then general of the matrix, Merrick Garland.
Mehdiyev was arrested in 2022 after they found him driving for Alinejad’s Brooklyn neighborhood with a loaded rifle and dozens of rounds of ammunition. Alinejad told Associated Press at that time that the authorities told her that the man was looking for her, and that a home security video had caught him hanging out of his door.
Mehdiyev also declared himself innocent, but the state of his judgment is not clear, according to Reuters.
“Mr. Omarov is presumed innocent,” said his lawyer, Elena Fast, to the news agency.
Masih Alinejad speaks in New York City in October 2018. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty images for women in cable telecommunications)
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“I am very excited to join the public trial as a witness to testify against those who were hired by the Islamic Republic to kill me,” Alinejad told Reuters. “It’s as if they had given me a second life.”
Grace Taggart of Fox News, Caitlin McFall, David Spunt and Associated Press contributed to this report.