Carlyle Rivera, a 50-year-old man from Brooklyn, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for collaborating with Iran's Revolutionary Guards in an attempt to assassinate journalist Masih Ali Nejad in New York. According to the charges, Rivera received $100,000 from an Iranian source, purchased weapons and stalked her with his accomplice. Ali Nejad has been a constant target of Tehran due to her activism against the regime. According to a previous indictment, the same Iranian source also planned a mass shooting of Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka and assassinations of Jewish businessmen in New York. The US Department of Justice stated that the sentence sends a "clear message. We will not allow assassinations by a foreign enemy on US soil."