Two men were sentenced in federal court on Wednesday in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident and journalist from Brooklyn.
Russian mobsters Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, who were convicted back in March in Manhattan on murder-for-hire charges, were each sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.
Alinejad was overwhelmed with joy.
“This is the dream millions of Iranians are fighting. They want to have justice. That’s why I want to say [it is] a historical day,” Alinejad said. “The killers wanted to see me covered in blood, dead on my porch in Brooklyn, and thanks to law enforcement agents, I am alive…