Federal judge gives man 15 years for Iran-backed assassination plot on US soil

A federal judge sentenced a would-be assassin to the maximum 15 years in prison for plotting to kill an Iranian American journalist in New York on behalf of Iran’s government.

U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman said the defendant, Carlisle Rivera, caused "great harm" to American journalist and human rights activist Masih Alinejad and her husband, calling the messages Rivera exchanged while planning the 2024 Brooklyn attack "chilling."

Alinejad told the court the repeated assassination...