{"id":36749,"date":"2025-03-22T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/a-garden-of-sunflowers-and-an-ak-47-iranian-murder-plot-comes-to-brooklyn\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:34:12","slug":"a-garden-of-sunflowers-and-an-ak-47-iranian-murder-plot-comes-to-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/a-garden-of-sunflowers-and-an-ak-47-iranian-murder-plot-comes-to-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"A garden of sunflowers \u2026 and an AK-47: Iranian murder plot comes to Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of two Russian mobsters for a murder-for-hire scheme targeting the women\u2019s rights activist Masih Alinejad revealed incongruous, and chilling, details<\/p>\n<p>Masih Alinejad had just finished gathering tomatoes and cucumbers from the backyard garden of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">Brooklyn<\/a> home when she spotted a \u201cgigantic\u201d man mulling about.<\/p>\n<p>At first, he seemed \u201clike a normal guy\u201d, the Iranian-American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/11\/iranian-dissident-masih-alinejad-24-hour-police-protection-uk-threats-to-life\">dissident<\/a> writer recalled in court this week of a fateful day in late July 2022. \u201cHe was walking and then he had a phone in his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/22\/masih-alinejad-murder-plot-new-york\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of two Russian mobsters for a murder-for-hire scheme targeting the women\u2019s rights activist Masih Alinejad revealed incongruous, and chilling, details Masih Alinejad had just finished gathering tomatoes and cucumbers from the backyard garden of her Brooklyn home when she spotted a \u201cgigantic\u201d man mulling about. At first, he seemed \u201clike a normal guy\u201d, &#8230; <a title=\"A garden of sunflowers \u2026 and an AK-47: Iranian murder plot comes to Brooklyn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/a-garden-of-sunflowers-and-an-ak-47-iranian-murder-plot-comes-to-brooklyn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A garden of sunflowers \u2026 and an AK-47: Iranian murder plot comes to Brooklyn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}