The federal trial of two suspects kicked off Monday after the pair were charged in a thwarted plot to kill a U.S.-based critic of the Iranian government on behalf of the Islamic Republic.

Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarev during their trial’s jury selection. The pair are charged with murder-for-hire and money laundering for trying to have an Iranian-American journalist killed.

Prosecutors say Mehdiyev was hired by the associates Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov to kill Masih Alinejad, a New York-based journalist who left Iran in 2009 and is known for outspoken criticism of ...

The men accused of directing the activity in Brooklyn, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, are to stand trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, where jury selection took place on Monday ...

Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, charged in the failed plot against her. Ms. Alinejad had “shined a light on the government of Iran’s oppression of women,” Mr. Gutwillig told jurors ...

Behind bars, Mehdiyev managed to get hold of a contraband phone and called his handler, Polad Omarov. "Where the f**k you at? How the f**k are you in jail? You were at the journalist's house!" ...

Federal prosecutors say Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2021 hired Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, members of a "Russian mob" sub-group, to kill an Iranian American journalist and ...

But Mehdiyev, 27, didn’t offer much else during a lengthy cross-examination on the third day of the proceedings against Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, Azerbaijan nationals who allegedly hired ...