American justice announces the indictment of an “agent of Iran” for a plan to assassinate Donald Trump

Farhad Shakeri, a 51-year-old Afghan, is accused of recruiting common criminals on behalf of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, according to court documents.

The American Department of Justice announced, Friday, November 8, the indictment of a “agent of Iran” accused of having received orders from Tehran to organize a plan to assassinate Donald Trump. Farhad Shakeri, a 51-year-old Afghan residing in Iran after spending 14 years in prison in the United States, is accused of having recruited common criminals on behalf of 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 U.S. national security as Iran.”declared the Minister of Justice, Merrick Garland, in a press release from his services. “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 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 Ministry of Defense. Justice. Two Americans were also arrested Thursday in the 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.