The jury condemns 2 conspiracy men to kill an American Iranian journalist in New York

New York (AP) – A jury has condemned two conspiracy men to kill the American Iranian journalist MASIH ALINJAD At home in New York City in a rental murder plan that prosecutors said it was funded by the Iranian government.

The verdict was returned in a federal court in New York on Thursday, ending a two -week trial that had a dramatic testimony of an armed man hired and align, an author, activist and collaborator of Voice of America.

Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad OmarovThey were chiefs of crime in the Russian mafia. His lawyers argued that they were innocent and that the evidence of the trial was defective.

Prosecutors said Align, 48, was attacked by Iran for their online campaigns encouraging women there to record videos of themselves exposing their hair in rape of edicts that require them to cover it in public.

Iran offered $ 500,000 for a alignment of align of July 2022 after the efforts to harass, stain and intimidate Align failed, prosecutors said.

Iran is still considered as a Source of murder plots In the United States, even against President Donald Trump When I was campaigning last year.