“Iran agent” indicted for assassination plot against Trump is Afghan recruited by Iranian Revolutionary Guards
American judicial authorities announced Friday the indictment of a “agent of Iran” accused of having received orders from Tehran to organize assassination plans in the United States targeting in particular Donald Trump and an Iranian-American dissident.
Contrary to what was announced earlier, including in this live, the suspect is not an Iranian. This is Farhad Shakeri, a 51-year-old Afghan residing in Iran after having served fourteen years in prison in the United States for robbery. He is accused of recruiting common criminals on behalf of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, according to court documents.
“Few actors in the world pose as serious a threat to U.S. national security as Iran”said Justice Minister Merrick Garland in a statement. “This agent of the Iranian regime was tasked by the regime with leading a network of criminal accomplices to carry out Iran’s assassination plans against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump”he added.
These conclusions are based on telephone conversations between agents of the American federal police (FBI) and Farhad Shakeri, who thus wished to obtain a reduction of sentence for a person incarcerated in the United States, according to the prosecution.
During these interviews, which took place between September 30 and Thursday, he notably claimed to have received instructions in September from a senior official of the Revolutionary Guards of “focus on surveillance and ultimately the assassination of former President Donald Trump”according to these documents.
This official asked him on October 7 to present an assassination plan to him within seven days, explaining that beyond this deadline, the project would be postponed until after the November 5 election, considering that Donald Trump would lose it. and that it would therefore be easier to target him afterwards, according to the same sources.
The Islamic Republic has for years harbored a desire to retaliate for the death of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020 in Iraq in a drone strike ordered by Donald Trump during his first term, recalls the Ministry of Defense. justice.
