(18 Mar 2025)
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New York — 18 March 2025
1. Masih Alinejad walks up, hugs woman
2. Masih Alinejad on top of stairs, lets hair down
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press:
"Masih Alinejad came to Manhattan federal court today to testify against two men who are accused of plotting to assassinate her. She spoke from the witness stand for over two hours, answering prosecutors questions about what caused her to leave Iran in 2009. She said the Iranian government was cracking down on journalists. She was a journalist there and they weren’t letting her ever show her hair. She came to the United States. She began a campaign to encourage women in Iran to show their hair and shoot videos of it and, and correspond with her. And women started getting arrested there for showing their hair. But the movement kept growing. And finally, she says she found herself talking to the FBI and having to be moved from her Brooklyn apartment because the threat of assassination was too great."
4. Masih Alinejad hugs man
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press:
"The man who prosecutors say was hired the hitman to actually kill her testified earlier in the trial. Now he is cooperating with the government and hopes to get leniency."
6. Masih Alinejad stands in front of cameras
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press:
"So now the trial will continue. The prosecutors are expected to wrap up in the next day or so. There could be closing arguments as soon as Thursday, and the jury could even get the case and begin deliberating by the end of the week on murder for hire charges and others against two men who are alleged to be members of the Russian mob."
8. Masih Alinejad walks down stairs, past camera
9. Cutaway of her husband Kambiz Foroohar, talking to media
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kambiz Foroohar, Masih Alinejad ‘s husband, answering questions from reporters:
"I’m hopeful that the justice will be done."
REPORTER: "Okay. Is she in good spirits? What are her thoughts? "
FOROOHAR: "She’s in great spirits, having been getting a chance to come face to face with the, the people who ordered her killing. This is the first time we’ve seen them face to face. "
11. Masih Alinejad walks down steps
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kambiz Foroohar, Masih Alinejad ‘s husband:
"She’s very strong and she’ll continue her work. This is not going to stop her."
13. Various of Masih Alinejad outside courthouse
STORYLINE:
The charismatic Iranian dissident and journalist who prosecutors say was targeted by her former homeland’s government for assassination, is testifying at the trial of two men accused in the plot.
Masih Alinejad took the witness stand Tuesday at a Manhattan federal trial that has already featured testimony from the man who says he was hired to kill her in 2022.
Khalid Mehdiyev, a government witness who says he worked for the Russian mob, was arrested after his car was stopped near Alinejad’s Brooklyn home.
An AK-47-style rifle was found in his backseat. He testified for the government after pleading guilty to charges.
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