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“Iran agent” indicted for plot to assassinate Trump

(Washington) The US Department of Justice announced Friday the indictment of an “agent of Iran” accused of having received orders from Tehran to organize a plan to assassinate Donald Trump.


Posted at 12:56 p.m.

Updated at 2:17 p.m.

Farhad Shakeri, a 51-year-old Afghan residing in Iran after spending 14 years in prison in the United States, is accused of recruiting common criminals for the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Republic Islamic, according to court documents.

“Few actors in the world pose as serious a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement from his office.

“This agent of the Iranian regime was tasked by that regime with leading a network of criminal accomplices to carry out Iran’s assassination plans against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump,” he said. added.

The Islamic Republic has been trying for several years to retaliate for the death of Revolutionary Guards general Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020 in Iraq in a drone strike ordered by Donald Trump, then president, recalls the Department of Defense. Justice.

Two Americans were also arrested Thursday in this case, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, both residents of New York City, and charged with planning the assassination of a native American journalist Iranian, very critical of the Islamic Republic.

The latter is not named by name, but described as having already been the target of assassination or kidnapping attempts sponsored by Tehran.

In October, American justice initiated proceedings against four Iranians, including a general of the Revolutionary Guards, for having sponsored a plan to assassinate Iranian-American journalist and dissident Masih Alinejad in New York in 2022.

The target was not identified, but Masih Alinejad confirmed that it was indeed her.

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