Masih Alinejad said the murder plot had turned her life upside down but failed to break her. Photo: AP PHOTO

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.

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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

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