Iran denies plotting against Trump as FBI claims foiled plan
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has denied allegations that Tehran planned to assassinate Donald Trump before the U.S. elections. Washington had earlier revealed that the FBI foiled an Iranian plot against the Republican candidate in the week leading up to the elections.
6:37 AM EST, November 9, 2024
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ismail Baghaei, "rejects allegations that Iran is implicated in an assassination attempt targeting former or current American officials," stated a declaration published by Iranian diplomats.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that in the week leading up to the elections, the FBI thwarted an Iranian plot against Donald Trump.
They counted on Trump's defeat
According to intelligence information, in September, an unnamed Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer tasked a certain Farhad Shakeri with tracking and then killing the Republican Party candidate for president.
The instigator, convinced that Trump would lose the election, declared that if the task could not be accomplished before the elections, it should be done afterward when the protection for the (defeated) candidate would be less stringent.
The Iran International portal claims that Shakeri is most likely in Iran. At the same time, two of his accomplices, accused of preparing an attack on an Iranian opposition journalist residing in the U.S., are detained in a New York facility.
