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A teenager who turned up on the doorstep of an Iranian researcher in southern Sweden armed with a knife was sentenced Thursday to almost four years in a young offenders institution.The teenager was convicted along with two others of a plot to kill Arvin Khoshnood, a high-profile academic who maintains that the Iranian government was ultimately behind the attack.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The youngster was recruited through messaging apps by the other defendants and promised a payment to kill Khoshnood.He showed up at Khoshnood’s house in the city of Malmo in September last year and spoke to the researcher’s wife.The researcher stayed inside and called the police. He has since been living in hiding at another address, his lawyer told AFP during the trial.“The court considers it established that A.N. armed himself with a knife and went to the victim’s home with the intention of killing him,” the Uddevalla court wrote in its ruling.
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