Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday rejected a report released by the Justice Department that said it had thwarted a plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City states that an unnamed senior member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accused Iran's Farhad Shakeri, 51, of “surveilling and ultimately assassinating the former U.S. president.'' “I told him to concentrate.” It's Donald J. Trump. ”
It added: “Mr. Shakeri informed law enforcement that he was tasked with providing a plot to kill President-elect Donald J. Trump on October 7, 2024.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that Spokesman Esmail Baghai “categorically denied allegations that Iran was involved in the plot to assassinate former and current senior U.S. officials.”
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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghai said a Justice Department report claiming that Iran had thwarted an Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump was “totally baseless and rejected.” (ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
Baghai said the report was “completely baseless and rejected,” adding that Iran has been accused of similar scenarios in the past but “categorically denied and proven to be false.” ” he said.
He said repeating these kinds of claims is “a malicious plot orchestrated by Zionist and anti-Iranian forces aimed at further complicating matters between the United States and Iran.”
Baghai concluded by saying that Iran “remains committed” to using “all legitimate and lawful means” at the domestic and international levels to “restore the rights of the Iranian state.”
An employee of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been accused of ordering an Iranian man to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump. Protesters around the world have called for the Revolutionary Guards to be registered as a terrorist in the EU, accusing them of repression within Iran and terrorism and warmongering abroad. (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images)
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According to the Justice Department, Shakeri is still a fugitive and is believed to be living in Iran, adding that he immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported around 2008 after serving 14 years in prison for a robbery conviction. “It was done.”
Shakeri is also accused of giving two New York residents, Carlyle Rivera, 49, and Jonathan Rodholt, 36, the task of surveilling and killing Iranian-Americans who were “outspoken critics of the Iranian regime.” But he has been accused. 100,000 dollars.
The person, who identified himself as journalist Masih Alinejad, lives in the United States and is also being targeted by the Iranian government, according to a Justice Department report.
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“We do not support the Iranian regime's efforts to endanger the American people and our national security,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
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Mr. Chaqueri, Mr. Rivera and Mr. Rodholt are charged with murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 to 20 years in prison.
According to prosecutors, Shakeri is also charged with conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and impose sanctions on the Iranian government. Each has the highest amount. Sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Fox News' Greg Norman and David Spunt contributed to this report.
