Masih Alinejad had just finished gathering tomatoes and cucumbers from the backyard garden of her Brooklyn home when she spotted a “gigantic” man mulling about.
At first, he seemed “like a normal guy”, the Iranian-American dissident writer recalled in court this week of a fateful day in late July 2022. “He was walking and then he had a phone in his hand.”
Alinejad saw him talking and said “what?”, thinking he was trying to speak with her. When Alinejad realized that he was speaking on the phone, she said “sorry” and grew worried. “I was like, the guy is a little bit suspicious so I got panicked. I ran to my entrance door,” Alinejad recalled. She scrambled to get the key and then saw him in her front garden.
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