A garden of sunflowers … and an AK-47: Iranian murder plot comes to Brooklyn

The trial of two Russian mobsters for a murder-for-hire scheme targeting the women's rights activist Masih Alinejad revealed incongruous, and chilling, details

Masih Alinejad had just finished gathering tomatoes and cucumbers from the backyard garden of her Brooklyn home when she spotted a gigantic" man mulling about.

At first, he seemed like a normal guy", the Iranian-American dissident writer recalled in court this week of a fateful day in late July 2022. He was walking and then he had a phone in his hand."