U.S. Department of Justice indicts man assigned by Iranian government to assassinate Trump :: Sympathetic Media Newsis ::

Last September, he was ordered to establish and execute a plan to assassinate Trump within a week.

(Washington = AP/Newsis) Reporter Yoo Se-jin = The U.S. Department of Justice disclosed Iran’s plot to kill former President Donald Trump on the 8th (local time) and received an assassination plot mission from an Iranian government official before the presidential election on the 5th. They announced that they had indicted a man who said he had received the grant.

Investigators said they learned of the plot to assassinate Trump from Fahad Shakeri, an Iranian government agent who was serving time in a U.S. prison on robbery charges. Shakeri maintained a network of criminal associates who participated in the plot.

Shakeri told investigators that a liaison in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard planned to assassinate Trump within a week in September and ordered him to be killed.

Shakeri also said he was told that if he was unable to assassinate Trump within a week, he would have to suspend his assassination plans until after the presidential election. This was based on the judgment that Trump would likely lose the presidential election and that it would be easier to kill him after he lost. The indictment states that he said it was.

Shakeri is currently on the run and in Iran.

Meanwhile, two other men who had been recruited to participate in other assassinations, including one of a prominent Iranian-American journalist, were arrested on the 8th, one of whom was said to be a prominent Iranian-American journalist.

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