Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, both members of an eastern European criminal gang who orchestrated a failed plot to assassinate campaigning reporter Alinejad, will face sentencing for murder-for-hire in a Manhattan court at a later date.
In July 2022, a man hired to carry out the assassination was arrested near Alinejad's New York home with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle, the court heard over the two week trial.
She left Iran in 2009.
Three other Iranians with “connections to the government of Iran” -- Haj Taher, Hossein Sedighi and Seyed Mohammad Forouzan -- were indicted over the affair.
Tehran has routinely rejected similar US accusations about alleged plots to kill US officials or politicians in the past.
The United States has also accused Iran of seeking to assassinate US officials in retaliation for Washington's killing of Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
The State Department previously announced a $20 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the alleged Iranian mastermind behind a plot to assassinate former White House official John Bolton.
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