The US Department of Justice ( DOJ) reported on Friday that an Iranian official had organized an assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump, and the allegations were” completely baseless and rejected.”
According to a Fox News statement, Esmail Baghaei, a spokeswoman for the Iranian foreign ministry, claimed in a statement released by Iranian press that the DOJ’s charges are part of a “malicious crime” being” coordinated by Zionist and anti-Iranian lines, aimed at bringing up issues between the US and Iran.”
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According to Baghaei,” Iran has been accused of related situations in the past, which have been strongly refuted and proven false.”
An alleged narrative was allegedly orchestrated by an unknown established within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to the DOJ’s criminal complaint filed on Friday in a federal court in New York City. The problem accuses the standard of managing Farhad Shakeri, 51, to “focus on surveilling, and, finally, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump”.
Shakeri, believed to remain in Iran, remains at large. According to the DOJ, Shakeri, who was deported after being convicted of assault in 2008 and immigrated to the US as a child, was charged with planning the murder on October 7, 2024.
The problem also accuses Shakeri of hiring two New York people, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, to monitor and death an American of Egyptian nature for$ 100, 000. Masih Alinejad, a journalist and outspoken critique of the Iranian government, is who the DOJ identified since.
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All three men—Shakeri, Rivera, and Loadholt—face claims of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and money laundering crime, carrying possible prison sentences of 10 to 20 times. Additionally, Shakeri faces more charges of conspiring to help a foreign terrorist organization, which could result in a 20-year prison term.
