DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

Relations between Iran and the United States - once strong allies - have often been mistrustful and sometimes openly hostile ...

Earlier this month, two men were convicted in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist and women’s rights activist living in New York. Her attempted assassination was orchestrated ...

Tehran has denied being behind any such plots.Alinejad testified last week that she came to the United States in 2009 after ...

The government of Iran put a $500,000 bounty on the head of an outspoken Iranian-American journalist to fund an assassination plot to silence her, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the closing ...

Two eastern European gangsters never plotted to murder exiled Iranian-American activist Masih ... There was no murder plot,” Fast said in her closing statement at the Manhattan trial of Omarov ...

Masih Alinejad blows a kiss to supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) 35,542 ...

Masih Alinejad started rattling Iran’s rulers as a teenager. Now, men whom prosecutors say arranged for an assassin to kill her in New York are on trial in Manhattan. By Colin Moynihan Just a ...

Prosecutors say it was an assassination plot by Iran's government. Alinejad, a journalist and women's rights activist, says she left the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2009 after they took her ...