Iran Hired Americans To Assassinate Famed Dissident. One Just Got Sentenced.

On Wednesday, a Staten Island man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a yearslong, state-sponsored plot directed by the government of Iran to assassinate prominent journalist and human rights activist Masih Alinejad on U.S. soil.

Jonathan Loadholt, 37, received the decade-long sentence from U.S.

District Judge Lewis J.

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