OC Woman Gets 4 Years Prison For Unknowingly Aiding In Plot Against Iranian Activist

IRVINE, CA — An Orange County woman was sent to four years in prison Friday after she was convicted of unwittingly funding a planned attack on an Iranian opposition activist living in New York City in 2020, the Orange County Register reported.

Niloufar Bahadorifar, 48, was sentenced to a four-year prison term for contributing money in a murder plot targeting Iranian opposition activist Masih Alinejad.

Since the attacks, Alinejad — a former Iranian journalist — said her sense of safety has been completely shattered after she was notified by authorities in 2020 that she was being watched and that photographs were taken of her Brooklyn home of 10 years.

Alinejad has been receiving U.S. government protection since then and she is often moved between safe houses.

"The crime left its mark. Every day when I go out in the street, I have to look over my shoulders ... I miss my tree-lined street and my neighbors who treated me as one of their own," Alinejad said during court.

To learn more about the Irvine woman who was sentenced for unwittingly funding a plot against an Iranian opposition activist, view the full article on the Orange County Register.