Iranian foreign ministry said Saturday that US claims of a plot by Tehran to kill President-elect Donald Trump were “totally unfounded.”

US prosecutors charged Iran with the alleged conspiracy, but the foreign ministry “rejects allegations that Iran is implicated in an assassination attempt targeting former or current American officials,” spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement.

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The US files charges in a purported Iranian conspiracy to kill Trump.
On Friday, US prosecutors filed charges in connection with a purported Iranian plan to kill a well-known dissident Iranian-American journalist and former President Donald Trump.

According to the Justice Department, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps allegedly planned the failed Trump assassination attempt in order to exact revenge for the 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US attack that was ordered by then-President Trump.

According to a statement from the department, the IRGC “tasked” 51-year-old Afghan national Farhad Shakeri, who is thought to be in Iran, with coming up with a plan to kill Trump.

Shakeri was accused separately with planning to assassinate an Iranian-American dissident in New York, together with two other men, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathan Loadholt, 36, both of New York.

Both Rivera and Loadholt, who are being held in the United States, appeared in court in New York on Thursday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray stated, “The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target US citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump, other members of the government, and dissidents who criticise the regime in Tehran.”

Trump was the victim of two more assassination attempts this year, including one at a campaign rally where a bullet grazed his ear. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s US presidential election.

Iran’s foreign ministry described the claims that Tehran was planning an attack on Trump as “completely baseless” on Saturday.

Esmaeil Baghaei, the foreign ministry’s spokesperson, stated in a statement that Iran “rejects allegations that Iran is implicated in an assassination attempt targeting former or current American officials.”

“Criminal associates’ network”
Suspect Shakeri was characterised by the US Justice Department as a “IRGC asset residing in Tehran”.

According to the report, he came to the US as a young boy and was deported in 2008 after being convicted of robbery and served 14 years in prison.

The Justice Department claimed that Shakeri has been providing the IRGC with agents to carry out surveillance and assassinations of IRGC targets in recent months by using a network of criminal friends he encountered while incarcerated in the United States.

At Shakeri’s direction, Loadholt and Rivera allegedly spent months surveilling a US citizen of Iranian descent who has been the focus of several previous kidnapping and murder schemes and is a vocal opponent of the Iranian government.

Despite not being named in court documents, she seems to be Masih Alinejad, a dissident journalist.

In late October, US authorities indicted a Revolutionary Guards commander with involvement in another attempt to kill New York-based Alinejad.

“Money is not a problem.” –

Shakeri allegedly told FBI agents about the assassination plot over the phone in recent months, according to the criminal complaint against him.

According to the report, Shakeri had the talks with FBI agents in an attempt to get a sentence reduction for an American prisoner.

Shakeri told the FBI that in September, an IRGC official approached him about planning Trump’s assassination.

The IRGC officer reportedly said, “Money’s not an issue,” in response to his claim that it would cost a “huge” sum of money.

Shakeri claimed on October 7 that he was given seven days to devise a plan to assassinate Trump.

According to reports, the IRGC officer stated that if Shakeri couldn’t devise a strategy in that amount of time, the IRGC would try to assassinate Trump after the election because it believed he would lose and it would be simpler to do so.

Iran has been charged by the US on several occasions of attempting to kill US officials in reprisal for Soleimani’s death. The charges have been denied by Tehran.

Earlier this year, a Pakistani man accused of having ties to Iran entered a not guilty plea in New York to allegations that he attempted to hire a hitman to assassinate a US official or politician.

A $20 million reward has also been offered by the State Department for information that results in the capture of the suspected Iranian mastermind behind the assassination attempt against former White House official John Bolton.