US charges Iranian man in alleged plot to assassinate Donald Trump

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8 November 2024 at 1:39 pm·1-min read

[File photo] Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump is reflected the bullet proof glass at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on November 3, 2024.

US prosecutors unsealed charges on Friday in an alleged Iranian plan to assassinate Donald Trump before the presidential election. The failed plot was allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to avenge the 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a US strike in Iraq ordered by then president Trump, the Justice Department said.

The United States has charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Justice Department said on Friday.

In a statement, the department said that Farhad Shakeri had informed law enforcement “that he was tasked on October 7, 2024, with providing a plan to kill” Trump, the department said. Shakeri allegedly told law enforcement he had no plans to formulate a plan to kill Trump within the IRGC’s timeline.

The department described Shakeri, 51, as an IRGC asset residing in Tehran. It said he immigrated to the US as a child and was deported in or about 2008 following a robbery conviction. Shakeri is at large and believed to be in Iran, the prosecutors said.

(Reuters)

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