On Friday, the US Department of Justice revealed details of a failed Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump before the US presidential elections.
The Associated Press reported on criminal charges, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that an officer in the Quds Force, the foreign branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, assigned an unnamed person last September to develop a monitoring plan. and killing.
The complaint said an Iranian official told the man, identified as Farhad Shakeri of Afghan origin, that if he was unable to develop a plan to assassinate Trump before the elections, Iran would suspend his plan until after the presidential elections; The officer believed that Trump would lose, and that his assassination would be easier then, according to the charges.
Shakri notified law enforcement authorities that he was asked on October 7, 2024, to submit a plan to kill Trump.
He told the FBI he did not intend to propose a plan to kill Trump within the officer’s seven-day deadline, according to the complaint.
The ministry described Shakeri as a person linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and a former resident of Tehran. She said he immigrated to the United States as a child before being deported around 2008 after being convicted of theft.
According to the US Department of Justice, 3 people, including an Iranian with ties to the Revolutionary Guard, were charged with planning several murders in America. The ministry said that two of the defendants, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loudholt, are American citizens.
The statement said the Iranian defendant, who is still at large and believed to be in Iran, noted that he “sponsored by his comrades in an American prison to convince agents to given to the (Revolutionary Guard) to investigate the murder of an American journalist who was critical of Tehran.
The ministry said it had filed charges against two others in connection with a conspiracy to kill an American citizen of Iranian origin in New York.
According to Shakeri’s testimony, these assignments included planning special operations, including monitoring American Jewish citizens in New York and targeting Israeli tourists abroad.
Shakri also admitted that he was offered $500,000 to carry out one of the murders.
The plot, released just days after Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris, reveals what federal officials say are ongoing efforts by Iran to target US government officials, including Trump, on US soil.
In the middle of last month, US President Joe Biden issued a directive to the National Security Council in the White House to warn Iran that any attempt to assassinate Trump “would be tantamount to an act of war against the United States.”
American authorities made unprecedented efforts to protect former officials in the first Trump era, after threats from Iran to retaliate against the head of foreign operations in the Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, with a decision made by Trump in early 2020, after receiving information. information indicates that Soleimani was planning upcoming attacks on American diplomats and forces in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and other regions in the Middle East.
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2024-11-08 17:58:00
