Two men accused of being members of a Russian organized crime group will face trial in the United States on Monday over what prosecutors call an unsuccessful Tehran-backed attempt to kill an Iranian dissident living in New York.

A self-professed member of a Russian organized crime group said on Tuesday he once tried to kill an Iranian-American female journalist and activist, making the admission in testimony at a U.S. trial of two associates.

Prosecutors say figures in Tehran hired two men to kill Masih Alinejad, a journalist who had criticized Iran’s head scarf laws.

Fox News senior correspondent Eric Shawn breaks down the federal trial underway for two men accused of being in an Iran-backed murder plot on 'America Reports.'

Prosecutors claim the suspects, allegedly members of an Eastern European crime group linked to Iran, were hired to carry out a murder on US soil in 2022. View on euronews