Iranian journalist and murder-for-rent target Masih Alinejad described Tuesday in court when she saw her so-called murderer who stared right in her eyes through her unspoilt sunflower patch but thought that the “gigantic” Hitman just admired her garden.
The Spine-Tingling Run-in took place on July 28, 2022-What was on the same day was amateurist murderer Khalid Mehdiyev was picked up by the local police in Brooklyn with a ski mask and a charged AK-47 in his car close to the house of Alinejad, Flatbush House in Alinejad.
Alinejad, a self -written female law activist who has been directed by the Iranian regime several times, Alinejad, a jury told the Federal Court of Manhattan that she had just come home from a trip to San Francisco that day when she noticed ‘the big man’ to her.
“I was with a friend and went to my back garden to prepare [another] Trip to Connecticut, “she said.” I just had all the tomatoes, basil, cucumbers in my hands. I walked to my inner door. When I walked on the Drivepad, I saw the man – the big guy. ‘
When asked to describe the self-proclaimed Russian gangster, she called him ‘gigantic’ but told him that he simply seemed a roaming Brooklynite again.
“He had a phone in his hand … I saw that he was talking,” she said, adding that she had his phone call for an attempt to talk to her.
But something about the teaching 27-year-old hit her wrong. And after she went inside, she ran to her front door to pick up a key she had forgotten.
That’s when she saw him.
“He was staring like, in the sunflowers, in my eyes,” said Alinejad. “Then I really panicked, but I knew nothing.”
Eventually she thought he probably only took pictures of ‘my beautiful sunflowers’, like others who walk through the neighborhood, have the tendency.
But she should have trusted her intuition.
Mehdiyev, a pizzeria employee who doubled as a single -making man, was reportedly to kill her that day on orders from Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, Azerbaijan -who are accused of hiring Mehdiyev to priot the banned journalist.
The criminal couple has not guilty of the charges that can lock them up for decades if they are convicted.
Agents from the Iranian government hunt Alinejad relentlessly since she fled in the middle of the Eastern country in 2009, but their barbaric schemes have been short of so far.
Omarov and Amirov are now on trial for the murder of rent and attempted murder to support racketeering for the plot and the authorities have said that she and Mehdiyev were part of the same gang in their shared home country.
But the plan – for which the Iranians paid the couple about $ 500,000 – was ridiculously wrong when Mehdiyev hit his hand through her door, ordering food on his car while lurking and then walked a stop sign while the police followed him.
The police arrested him in his Subaru Forester SUV with Illinois signs just outside the Alinejad house, and found the loaded attack rifle with one in the room and the ski -mask -that Mehdiyev clearly said in court that he was planning to use the Dissident.
Mehdiyev – who said he received $ 30,000 for the failed hit – decided to work with the FBI after he had guilty for attempted murder and weapons loading that could deliver him in the latch for at least 15 years.
It was not the first time that Alinejad was the target in America – a year before the broken hit, an Iranian intelligence officer and three others were sued for accusations they had deported to kidnaps Alinejad.
But she said that the repeated attempts of the Iranian government to kill her – who denied the nation – made her “determined to give voice to powerful women in Iran who face the same murderers every day.”
