Two purported Russian mobsters convicted of murder-for-hire charges in New York have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison over what prosecutors called a failed Tehran-backed plot to kill an Iranian dissident living in the US.

Rafat Amirov, 46, and Polad Omarov, 41, appeared in prison garb before US District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan.

A jury found them guilty in March of five charges - including attempted murder, money laundering and conspiracy - for their roles in a 2022 plot to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a US-Iranian and an outspoken critic of Tehran and its treatment of women.

"This was a terrible, terrible crime that has had terrible, terrible repercussions on some very fine people," McMahon said on Wednesday.

Alinejad addressed the court with a crowd of supporters se

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