U.S. prosecutors announced charges on Friday in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist.
The foiled assassination plot on Trump was allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to avenge the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020 in a U.S. strike ordered by then-President Trump, the Justice Department said.
Farhad Shakeri, 51, an Afghan national who is believed to be in Iran, was "tasked" by the IRGC with providing a plan to kill Trump, who defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, the department said in a statement.
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