The United States indicted an Iranian for their alleged connection to a plot ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to assassinate President-elect Donald Trumpas reported this Friday by the Ministry of Justice. In a statement, the department said Shakeri informed authorities “that he was tasked on October 7, 2024, with providing a plan to kill” the Republican.
The department described Shakeri as an IRGC asset who resides in Tehran. He said he emigrated to the United States as a child and was deported around 2008 after a robbery conviction. The department said it has charged two other individuals in connection with their alleged involvement in a plot to kill an American. citizen of Iranian origin in New York.
