Would-be killer of Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad sentenced to 15 years in prison
Farhad Shakeri, an Iranian operative, hired Carlisle Rivera as part of a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Iranian dissidents, according to prosecutors. Masih Alinejad was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday. Alinejad was saved from three conspiracies by Iran’s regime to kill or kidnap him. At his sentencing hearing in federal court in Manhattan, he…