Iran denied this Saturday any involvement in an assassination attempt against Donald Trump, as well as against former or current US officials, after the United States accused a man linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard of plotting a plan to assassinate the then Republican candidate.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei called his country’s role in an assassination attempt against former or current US officials “completely unfounded” and rejected in a statement.
The US Department of Justice denounced that Iran commissioned Farhad Shakeri to carry out a series of murders
The spokesman for Iranian diplomacy recalled that Washington had already made similar accusations in the past that “turned out to be false.” “The repetition of this statement at the current time is a disgusting conspiracy by Zionists and anti-Iran circles to complicate things between Iran and the US,” the diplomat stated.
The US Department of Justice charged on Friday that Iran tasked defendant Farhad Shakeri, 51, with “leading a network of criminal associates to further assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.”
Shakeri, described in the lawsuit as an Afghan living in Tehran who spent a decade in jail in New York, where he met his associates, before being deported, is an “active” member of the Revolutionary Guard.
According to the Department of Justice, the accused voluntarily participated in a telephone conversation with the FBI, to whom he assured that on October 7 he was tasked with preparing a plan to kill Donald Trump the following week, but that he never thought about preparing that plan. plan “in the time frame proposed by the Revolutionary Guard”, without this contradiction being very clear.
Intelligence officials warned Trump of the threat
The accusation comes after Trump’s campaign said in September that US intelligence officials had warned the then-candidate “of real and specific threats from Iran intended to assassinate him.”
The Iranian authorities have repeatedly threatened to avenge the death of General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the external body of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, killed in January 2020 in a selective US attack, ordered by Trump.
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