Farhad Shakeri has been accused of planning a murder-for-hire plot targeting US President-elect Donald Trump on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. He was reportedly assigned to spy on and eventually assassinate Trump by the Iranian higher-ups According to a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court in September 2024, Shakeri was reportedly assigned by the Iranian leadership to …
On Thursday, the US Justice Department announced that it had foiled a plot by the Iranian Islamic regime to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in the run-up to the election. It has filed a criminal complaint in a federal court in New York City, accusing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of hiring a 51-year-old assassin named Farhad Shakeri to surveil and …