Would-be assassin of Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad set for sentencing in Manhattan
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Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad has survived three plots by Iran's regime to kill or kidnap her. She will confront one of the men involved in a murder-for-hire plot at his sentencing in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday. In:
Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad has survived three plots by Iran's regime to kill or kidnap her. She will confront one of the men involved in a murder-for-hire plot at his sentencing in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
"Now I'm going to face the killer, my would-be assassin," said Alinejad, a critic of Iran's repression of women. "But the main killer in my eyes is the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)."
It is the second time that Alinejad will face a man charged with plotting to assassinate her in the past year. Two men, who prosecutors said were members of a Russian mob hired by Iran, received 25 year prison terms in October for attempting to kill Alinejad at her Brooklyn home.
"The IRGC, the Revolutionary Guards, is behind the assassination plots. The same IRGC that is ordering a massacre right now in Iran," she said. "I've been bombarded by Iranians receiving videos showing the IRGC using AK-47 military weapons to kill people. The same IRGC gave money to the assassins here to buy AK-47s to end my life."
Prosecutors said Farhad Shakeri, an Iranian operative, was "tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran's assassination plots against its targets."
