The Iranian government instructed one of its agents to stalk and assassinate President-elect Donald Trump this past September, according to a bombshell indictment unsealed by Manhattan federal prosecutors Friday.
According to the indictment, which charges Iranian Farhad Shakeri and two New Yorkers with murder for hire and conspiracy, an unnamed official in Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) instructed Shakeri to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump” in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign.
Prosecutors say that when Shakeri noted that the plot would “cost a ‘huge’ amount of money,” the IRGC official said that “we have already spent a lot of money .. . [s]o the money’s not an issue.”
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