The US has charged an Iranian man in reference to an alleged plot ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Justice Division stated on Friday.
In an announcement, the division stated that Farhad Shakeri had knowledgeable regulation enforcement “that he was tasked on October 7, 2024, with offering a plan to kill” Trump, the division stated. Shakeri allegedly advised regulation enforcement he had no plans to formulate a plan to kill Trump throughout the IRGC’s timeline.
The division described Shakeri, 51, as an IRGC asset residing in Tehran. It stated he immigrated to the US as a toddler and was deported in or about 2008 following a theft conviction. Shakeri is at massive and believed to be in Iran, the prosecutors stated.
Two New York residents whom Shakeri had met in jail, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, have additionally been charged for serving to Shakeri plot to kill a US citizen of Iranian origin in New York, described as an outspoken critic of Iran’s authorities who had beforehand been focused for homicide.
Prosecutors didn’t determine the goal, but it surely matched the outline of Masih Alinejad, a journalist and activist who has criticized Iran’s head-covering legal guidelines for ladies. 4 Iranians have been charged in 2021 in reference to a plot to kidnap her, and in 2022 a person was arrested with a rifle outdoors her house.
Rivera and Loadholt have each been ordered detained pending trial. Their legal professionals didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
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