Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected a report issued by the Department of Justice on Friday that says it foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.
A criminal complaint filed in New York federal court said an unnamed officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps told Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, to “focus on surveillance, and killing the former President of the United States.” Donald J. Trump.”
“Shakeri told law enforcement that he was tasked on October 7, 2024, with a plan to assassinate President-elect Donald J. Trump,” it added.
On Saturday, spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei “absolutely rejected allegations that Iran is involved in assassination attempts on US and current officials,” according to the State Department.
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Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesman for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, described the report from the DOJ that it foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump as “totally baseless and rejected.” (ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
Baghaei, who described the report as “absolutely baseless and rejected,” said Iran has been accused of similar incidents in the past that have been “vehemently denied and proven false.”
He said that repeating these kinds of claims is “a cruel conspiracy organized by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles, aimed at furthering the problems between the US and Iran.”
Baghaei concluded that Iran “remains committed” to using “all legal and legitimate means” at the domestic and international levels to “restore the rights of the Iranian nation.”
The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) is accused of accusing an Iranian man of killing President-elect Donald Trump. Protesters around the world have called for the IRGC to be added to the EU's terrorist list after accusing the group of repression inside Iran, and terrorism and warmongering abroad. (Photos by Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Shakeri, who is still at large and believed to be living in Iran, “immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported in 2008 or after serving 14 years in prison for robbery,” according to the DOJ.
Shakeri is also accused of charging two New York men, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, with stalking and killing an Iranian-American – “an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime” $100,000.
This person, who identified himself as journalist Masih Alinejad, lives in the United States and has been attacked by the Iranian government, the DOJ report said.
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“We will not stand for the Iranian regime's efforts to endanger the American people and the security of the United States,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
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Shakeri, Rivera and Loadholt are facing charges of involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy to commit murder for hire and money laundering, which carry a maximum sentence of ten to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Shakeri was also charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and sanctions against the Government of Iran, each carrying a maximum count. a sentence of 20 years in prison.
Fox News' Greg Norman and David Spunt contributed to this report.
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