Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed a recent report released by the Department of Justice stating that it foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.
A criminal complaint filed in a New York City federal court stated that an unnamed official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps told Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.” (RELATED: Justice Department Unseals Charges Against Iranian Nationals In Alleged Trump Assassination Plot)
“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.
On Saturday, spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei “categorically dismissed allegations that Iran was involved in attempts to assassinate former and current US officials,” according to the foreign ministry.
Baghaei described the report as “completely baseless and rejected,” and said Iran has been accused of similar scenarios in the past that have been “firmly denied and proven false.”
He said that repeating these types of claims “is a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles, aimed at further complicating the issues between the US and Iran.”
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,” according to the DOJ.
Shakeri, Rivera and Loadholt face charges of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and money laundering conspiracy, which carries maximum penalties of 10 to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Shakeri has also been charged with conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and sanctions against the Government of Iran, which each carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
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I see. We’re supposed to believe the Mullahs.
The sadness, is you can’t believe what terrorists say, neither can you believe anything that the doj or fbi say. Just pray for President Trump and his family and the allies from his prior administration.