DOJ Thwarts Iranian Plot to Assassinate President Donald Trump

In a chilling reveal, the Justice Department announced it stopped an Iranian plot targeting President Donald Trump.

Turns out it was orchestrated by Farhad Shakeri, reportedly an asset for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Shakeri was tasked to assassinate Trump.

Sorry, not going to happen.

Two were arrested for targeting an American journalist for murder.

And so, for now, Shakeri remains at large in Iran.

IRANIAN PLOT! DOJ Reveals Thwarted Trump Assassination Plan: Reporthttps://t.co/DanpyJE8cV

— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) November 8, 2024

Fox News reports:

The Justice Department says it has thwarted an Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump in the weeks leading up to the election.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City says an unnamed official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had asked Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, in September to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”

“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.

“We have also charged and arrested two individuals who we allege were recruited as part of that network to silence and kill, on U.S. soil, an American journalist who has been a prominent critic of the regime,” Garland added. “We will not stand for the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security.”

The Justice Department says Shakeri, who remains at large and is believed to be living in Iran, “immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported in or about 2008 after serving 14 years in prison for a robbery conviction.”

“Shakeri has informed law enforcement that he was tasked on Oct. 7, 2024, with providing a plan to kill President-elect Donald J. Trump,” it added.

Trump was referred to in court filings as “Victim-4.”

“According to Shakeri, during his meeting with IRGC Official-I on or about October 7, 2024, IRGC Official-I directed Shakeri to provide a plan within seven days to kill Victim-4. If Shakeri was unable to put forth a plan within that timeframe, IRGC Official-I continued, the IRGC would pause its plan to kill Victim-4 until after the U.S. Presidential elections, because IRGC Official-I assessed that Victim-4 would lose the election and, afterward, it would be easier to assassinate Victim-4,” the documents said.

Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump revealed as 2 New Yorkers also busted in plan to kill journalist https://t.co/m0mdjDBFZ0 pic.twitter.com/PiL93cBMaL

— FLAHUSTLA (@FLAHUSTLA) November 8, 2024

Some have been pointing this out, where the article makes it seem like two Jews were involved in the assassination attempt:

https://x.com/RiotTownUSA/status/1855335477601263987

But a further dig shows that it wasn’t worded very clearly. Those were two targets.

Three people involved with three targets.