Two men charged in an alleged Iranian government-sponsored plot to kill a prominent Iranian journalist and human rights activist went on trial Monday as a federal judge in New York City assured prospective jurors that “nobody got killed.”
The men, alleged members of an Eastern European crime group with ties to Iran, were charged in January 2023 with plotting in 2022 to murder Masih Alinejad, an author and contributor to Voice of America who fled Iran following the country's disputed 2009 presidential election.
