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Two Russians sentenced to 25 years for plot to kill Iranian dissident in US

Masih Alinejad Polad Omarov Rafat Amirov Khalid Mehdiyev Iran New York
a women's hand on chest
Masih Alinejad greets supporters outside the courthouse in New York after testifying at the trial of two men accused of plotting to kill her. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

The two Russian mobsters convicted in an international assassination plot targeting the Iranian American dissident Masih Alinejad were sentenced to 25 years in prison in a New York courtroom on Wednesday.

Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov were found guilty in Manhattan federal court this March of charges including murder-for-hire and attempted murder in aid of racketeering.

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