Trump’s campaign staff declared a few weeks ago that the U.S. Secret Service had alerted them to actual, tangible threats of his assassination from Iran.
“The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target U.S. citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
A 51-year-old Iranian national with Afghan citizenship told the FBI during their investigation of another case that he had received orders from Iran to present and carry out an assassination plan against Trump only weeks prior to the U.S. presidential election.
The statements are believable by the investigators.
The U.S. judiciary has brought charges against the 51-year-old and two other men also accused of plotting to assassinate an Iranian dissident.
Arrest warrants have been issued for the men.
“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran,” warned Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“We will not stand for the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security,” Gerland insisted.
Trump declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist organization, imposed new sanctions on Iran, and withdrew from the nuclear deal with the country during his first term as president of the United States.
Under Trump’s orders, the U.S. military killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in 2020 in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad via drone strike.
