An Iranian “assassination attempt” against Donald Trump was foiled by the FBI, the Justice Department has revealed.
The botched attempt was disclosed by the government department ahead of this week’s election, which saw Trump emerge victorious.
In September, an unnamed Iranian official instructed a US contact to together a plan to track and ultimately kill Trump.
Revealed by a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, the murder-for-hire plan was ultimately foiled by FBI agents.
Iranian ‘assassination attempt’ against Donald Trump foiled by FBI
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The man, identified as Farhad Shakeri, reportedly used a network of criminal associates to conduct surveillance and assassination operations for the Iranian government.
An official Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had instructed Shakeri to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump” in the concluding weeks of the 2024 campaign.
According to prosecutors, when Shakeri said that the plot would “cost a ‘huge’ amount of money,” the IRGC official replied that “we have already spent a lot of money .. . [s]o the money’s not an issue.”
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