{"id":116102,"date":"2026-01-29T06:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:37:20","slug":"us-says-brooklyn-man-sentenced-to-15-years-in-iran-backed-plot-to-kill-dissident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116102\/","title":{"rendered":"US says Brooklyn man sentenced to 15 years in Iran-backed plot to kill dissident"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for taking part<\/a> in what prosecutors called a failed Iran-backed murder-for-hire plot<\/a> against Masih Alinejad<\/a>, a prominent Iranian dissident living in the U.S., the Justice Department said.<\/p>\n

Carlisle Rivera, also known as “Pop,” previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and one count of conspiracy to commit stalking before U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman for the Southern District of New York, who imposed Wednesday’s sentence, the Justice Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Alinejad, who fled Iran in 2009, is a longtime critic<\/a> of Iran’s head-covering laws and a journalist. She has promoted videos of women violating those laws to her millions of social media followers. She was living in Brooklyn at the time of the alleged plot on her life.<\/p>\n

The case was part of a crackdown by the Justice Department on what it calls transnational repression: the targeting by authoritarian governments of political opponents on foreign soil.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps and its intelligence officials have repeatedly tried to target Alinejad.<\/p>\n

Iran has dismissed as baseless allegations that its intelligence officers sought to kidnap or kill her.<\/p>\n

Other people have also been convicted<\/a> in the U.S. and sentenced in relation to the alleged plot.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; editing by Edward Tobin<\/p>\n

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Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role. His past breaking news coverage has spanned across a range of topics like the Black Lives Matter movement; the US elections; the 2021 Capitol riots and their follow up probes; the Brexit deal; US-China trade tensions; the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan; the COVID-19 pandemic; and a 2019 Supreme Court verdict on a religious dispute site in his native India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[16263,7724,51389,98,100,99,48379,46699,50912,16241,51391,47867,16267,16268,50167,47868,36431,50162,16247,51390,46705,20777,48386,51387,50913,16264,9,24,50910,63,16269,50169,16254,46791,46725,51385,51386,51388,48392,618,16262],"class_list":["post-116102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-amers","tag-asia","tag-asxpac","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-ccos","tag-clj","tag-crim","tag-cycs","tag-destmetop","tag-destocatpm","tag-destousdnm","tag-destoustpm","tag-destouswdm","tag-dip","tag-emea","tag-emrg","tag-gen","tag-ir","tag-judic","tag-legal","tag-mdia","tag-meast","tag-murd","tag-namer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nrlpaocrim","tag-nyc","tag-packageus-top-news","tag-packageworld-news","tag-pol","tag-pub","tag-reuters-legal","tag-rulesiran","tag-swasia","tag-tglf","tag-tmt","tag-us","tag-wash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}