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US Justice Department accuses Iran of plotting to murder Trump
Updated on November 8, 2024 – 7:41 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
A few weeks ago, Trump’s campaign team announced that Iran was targeting the Republican. Now the Ministry of Justice is publishing further details.
The US Justice Department accuses Iran of plotting to assassinate Republican Donald Trump. “Today’s indictments reveal Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target U.S. citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
During the FBI’s investigation into another case, a 51-year-old from Iran with Afghan nationality said that a few weeks before the US presidential election, Iran had commissioned him to present and implement a plan to assassinate Trump. The investigators consider the statements to be credible.
Trump’s campaign team announced a few weeks ago that it had been informed by US intelligence “about real and concrete threats from Iran to assassinate him.”
The US justice system has brought charges against the 51-year-old and two other men – they are also accused of having plotted to murder an Iranian dissident. Arrest warrants were issued for the men.
“There are few actors in the world that pose as great a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran,” warned US Attorney General Merrick Garland. “We will not tolerate the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security.”
During his first term as US President, Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran, imposed new sanctions against the country and classified the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. In 2020, on Trump’s instructions, the US military killed Iranian General Ghassem Soleimani with a drone strike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
