The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges on Friday against three Iranian nationals accused of plotting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in retaliation for Trump’s 2020 surgical strike that eliminated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who was then considered by some analysts to be the second most powerful man in Iran.
Two of the individuals are now in custody, while the third, an Iranian government “asset,” remains at large.
The federal complaint, filed in Manhattan, details an alleged directive from an official within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), identified as Farjad Shakeri, who instructed two U.S.-based contacts, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, in September to conduct surveillance and prepare a plan to assassinate Trump.
Rivera and Loadholt were apprehended by the FBI in October, while Shakeri is believed to be in Tehran. According to ABC News, Rivera and Loadholt informed Shakeri that they were suspending the plan until after the presidential election, believing Trump would lose:
“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran. 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 J. Trump,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the charges.
Shakeri emigrated to the United States but was deported in 2008 after serving prison time for robbery, according to the Justice Department. While in prison, he met Rivera and Loadholt and hired them to target an Iranian American activist living in Brooklyn, according to the complaint.
The IRGC also tasked Shakeri with carrying out other assassinations against U.S. and Israeli citizens located in the United States, including Trump, the complaint alleges.
“Actors directed by the Government of Iran continue to target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad. This has to stop,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “Today’s charges are another message to those who continue in their efforts — we will remain unrelenting in our pursuit of bad actors, no matter where they reside, and will stop at nothing to bring to justice those who harm our safety and security.”
Some have suggested that the assassination scheme could be interpreted as an act of war against the United States.
Read the full indictment below:
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“this has got to stop”. Who is going to stop them ? NO ONE, that’s who ! NO ONE in the Western World has enough balls to do anything except cry, “don’t hurt me”.
The 2 atomic bombs turned Japan into a great Nation. It’s time to do the same for Iran.
Another Garland/DOJ effort at misdirecting the public’s attention away from their crimes against America. Don’t be misdirected. Focus on the criminals within our government.
The fbi is notorious for doing this kind of crap. They have a whole plethora of phony cases sitting around that they periodically release only for political gain. This won’t do any good. Wray and his corrupt cronies in the fbi are as good as gone. Every fbi GS-14 and above will get a pink slip once President Trump takes office January 20th. Every fbi employee involved in the unconstitutional raid on Mar-a-Lago will be fired, as well they should be. Once Trump reinstates Schedule F, there will be a massive clean-up of LyinBiden’s corrupt federal government – good riddance affirmative action. Good riddance DEI. Good riddance to the corrupt and incompetent.
The fbi is notorious for doing this kind of crap. They have a whole plethora of phony cases sitting around that they periodically release only for political gain. This won’t do any good. Wray and his corrupt cronies in the fbi are as good as gone. Every GS-14 and above will get a pink slip once President Trump takes office January 20th. Every fbi employee involved in the unconstitutional raid on Mar-a-Lago will be fired, as well they should be. Once Trump reinstates Schedule F, there will be a massive clean-up of LyinBiden’s corrupt federal government – good riddance affirmative action. Good riddance DEI. Good riddance to the corrupt and incompetent.
Nothing will happen to them except deportation. Otherwise they will say that the CIA/FBI set them up as a proxy force to take the fall.