Earlier this month, two men were convicted in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist and women’s rights activist living in New York. Her attempted assassination was orchestrated by the Iranian government, part of more than a decade of violent plots targeting its critics abroad. Lisa Desjardins speaks with Alinejad about how she sees these times in the U.S. and Iran.

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