Washington – On Friday, the US Department of Justice filed a criminal complaint against three people linked to an “Iranian plot” allegedly prepared by an Iranian official to assassinate Donald Trump, who was elected president of the United States.
According to the criminal complaint submitted to the Federal Court in Manhattan, the mystery of the plan to assassinate President-elect Trump was solved through the testimonies of Iranian Farhad Shakeri, who spent time in American prisons on charges of theft.
Shakeri, who was imprisoned in the United States for 14 years and was deported to Iran in 2008, said in his testimony to FBI agents that an unnamed official from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard contacted him last October and said that he had assigned him to develop an assassination plan to kill Trump. .
Shakeri, who was in Iran, claimed that the aforementioned Revolutionary Guard official asked him to spy on Trump and prepare a plan to kill him within 7 days, and if that did not happen, he instructed to postpone the assassination until after the presidential elections.
He stated that he contacted Carlyle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, who live in the United States, for the assassination plan, and Shakeri claimed to FBI officials that he did not intend to carry out this plan within the timetable set by Iran.
Justice Department investigators announced that Rivera and Loadholt were arrested in New York.
It is worth noting that the commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in an air strike on Baghdad Airport on January 3, 2020, on the orders of Trump.
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