Russian mobsters sentenced to 25 years for foiled plot to assassinate Iranian dissident journalist

Two purported Russian mobsters were each sentenced to 25 years behind bars Wednesday for hiring a hitman to kill Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home three years ago on behalf of the Iranian government. . . . Outside the courthouse afterward, Alinejad appeared at a bank of microphones with [UANI Senior Advisor] Barry Rosen, one of more than 50 Americans who were seized in Iran in 1979 and held hostage for more than a 14 months. “Justice is beautiful,” Alinejad said as she held a yellow sunflower someone had given her. She said Rosen, who had a gun held to his head when he was a hostage, “is here to stand by my side to see justice.” Rosen called Alinejad “one of the most important people in the world” for her efforts to give voice to the voiceless in Iran and elsewhere around the globe.