The US Department of Justice announced on Friday the indictment of an “agent of Iran”, accused of having received orders from Tehran to organize a plan to assassinate Donald Trump, the winner of the US presidential elections on November 5 from the Republican side.
Farhad Shakeri, a 51-year-old Afghan resident of Iran after serving 14 years in a US prison, is accused of recruiting common criminals on behalf of the Revolutionary Guards, the elite military of the Tehran regime, according to the documents. judicial.
“Few actors in the world pose as serious a threat to US national security as Iran,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a press release.
“This agent of the Iranian regime was tasked by Tehran to lead 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 Guard general Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020 in Iraq following a drone strike, ordered by Donald Trump, while he was president, the Ministry of Justice recalls.
Two Americans were also arrested Thursday in the case, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, both New York residents and charged with plotting the assassination of a highly critical Iranian-American journalist to the Iranian regime.
This had not been designated by name, but described as already being a target of assassination or kidnapping attempts at the command of Tehran.
In October, American justice began criminal proceedings against four Iranians, including a Revolutionary Guard general, for allegedly ordering 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, according to AFP.
Source: www.cotidianul.ro
