Iranian Agents Plotted to Kill Trump, U.S. Says in Unsealed Charges

[ificandream]

Source: NY Times/gift link

By Benjamin WeiserDevlin Barrett and Christopher Maag
Nov. 8, 2024
Updated 1:59 p.m. ET
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Friday that Iranian plotters had discussed a plan to assassinate Donald J. Trump before he was re-elected as president this week.

One of the plotters said that he was assigned in September to carry out the plan by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran, the prosecutors said in court papers.

An Iranian operative said he was told to put aside other efforts he was undertaking on behalf of the Revolutionary Guards and “focus on surveilling, and ultimately, assassinating” Mr. Trump, according to a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.

The operative told a Revolutionary Guards Corps official that such a plan would cost a “huge” amount of money, the complaint said. In response, the official said, “We have already spent a lot of money,” adding that “money’s not an issue.”



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[AllyCat]

1. I thought the Iranians loved him?

Why did they miss?

And thank you to the DUer who explained how to use the reader to get around ads and paywalls.

[ificandream]

3. I thought I posted a gift link. It wasn't?

[AllyCat]

7. Actually, now I see it at the top.

Thank you though! Sorry i missed it.

[EX500rider]

15. "I thought the Iranians loved him?" For pulling us out of the Iran deal?

Or for killing one of their top guys?

They have zero reason to love him, plus I imagine he will green light the IDF to strike their nuclear program

[AllyCat]

16. That last one. I bet that's it.

Pulling us out of the nuclear program would have helped them I thought.

[EX500rider]

21. No, he reimposed sanctions on Iran, severely impacting their economy

[AllyCat]

26. I had not remembered that part.

In my defense, it was hard keeping up with all his insanity.

[Walleye]

2. Even trump's would-be assassins are incompetent

[Klarkashton]

4. I suspect that there was an undercover FBI informant

Involved with this, just a suspicion. We will find out more later In suppose.

[walkingman]

5. If the POTUS elect were killed what would happen (who would become President in 2025?

[ificandream]

8. Vance.

[nuxvomica]

6. I'm not buying it.

It sounds like a plant. Aren't the Iranians cozy with Putin? Even if they weren't, isn't a Trump presidency a gift to them?

[Polybius]

11. They detest Trump

He ordered their "beloved" general to be killed.

[Galraedia]

24. It's certaintly a gift to Putin who would love to see the US in war with Iran.

[Lulu KC]

27. This is where I get stuck

Putin = Iran's friend
Trump = Putin's friend
Can't Putin run some interference for his puppet?

I feel like I missed a chapter. I remember the sanctions, but I thought Putin had enough influence in Iran that he could be DTs fixer.

[BlueMTexpat]

31. Well, they were

"incompetent," after all.

[LilyBelle]

9. Trump should pardon them.

I believe it's a sham to evoke sympathy & patriotism. Why would putin let Iran kill his golden pig? And the ineptness? Please.

[Polybius]

12. The Justice Department and Biden disagree with that

I trust them.

[ffr]

10. A false flag operation on the part of Iran. TSF is already partnered with Russia's Putin.

Axis nations are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, to name a few. The Republic of Trump is already aligned with Iran by default.

[yaesu]

13. Too bad the JD didn't go after tRumpistan for plotting to kill democracy. nt

[coffeenap]

14. oh.

[JoseBalow]

17. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran

[Galraedia]

18. I guarantee this is BS for pushing the US into a war with Iran

Russia and Iran would like nothing more than to see the United States in a war with Iran. Russia especially, since American support for Ukraine wouldn't be possible or minimal at best.

[JI7]

19. US would easily beat Iran. Even Israel could do it

[Galraedia]

20. Yeah and the US could beat the Taliban if they just stayed in Afganistan for another 20 years.

[JI7]

29. We could have beat the Taliban in days. We failed in nation building

but if it was just about battling the other side in warfare and defeating them it would happen right away.

[tenderfoot]

28. don't forget Vietnam

it so went swimmingly, now didn't it?

[JI7]

30. Vietnam was backed by another superpower

[cstanleytech]

33. As are Iran and North Korea as both are being used to distract focusing on everything China and Russia are doing.

[tenderfoot]

34. You're welcome to sign up for duty

What’s stopping you?

[JI7]

36. ????

[tenderfoot]

37. It'll be a breeze

eom

[JI7]

38. ???

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect.

Investigators were told of the plan to kill Trump by Farhad Shakeri, an accused Iranian government asset who spent time in American prisons for robbery and who authorities say maintains a network of criminal associates enlisted by Tehran for surveillance and murder-for-hire plots.

Shakeri told the FBI that a contact in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed him this past September to set aside other work he was doing and assemble a plan within seven days to surveil and ultimately kill Trump, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan.

The official was quoted by Shakeri as saying that “We have already spent a lot of money” and that “money’s not an issue.” Shakeri told investigators the official told him that if he could not put together a plan within the seven-day timeframe, then the plot would be paused until after the election because the official assumed Trump would lose and that it would be easier to kill him then, the complaint said.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-fbi-justice-department-iran-83cff84a7d65901a058ad6f41a564bdb

[Dan]

23. I am only concerned about the Agents charged with protecting him.

Otherwise, I don't care.

[tenderfoot]

25. bullshit

eom

[cstanleytech]

32. All they'd be killing would be his body as his soul as well as his brain have been dead for decades.

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. So the FBI phoned Iran, and Shakeri happily admitted "yeah, I was plotting assassinations in the USA"?

This is not how such plots are normally discovered. OK, they realised (informants, surveillance, whatever) that Loadholt and Rivera were up to no good - planning the assassination of Masih Alinejad, and maybe Trump too, and those 2 were arrested. Either they gave up Shakeri's name, or surveillance etc. got that too. So they phone him in Iran, and he just says "yeah, I was arranging murder in your country - what you gonna do about it?"? Weird. I mean, people say "don't admit anything to the authorities" when you've been arrested, but when you're safely in an enemy country, and the authorities in that country won't want details of their plots going public? Seems a really dumb move to cop to it all.

[Sogo]

39. No one should assume that Iran will stop trying with this

plot being foiled. To them it is just a setback....

I said at the time Trump order the assassination of General Soleimani, that he just put a target on his back.

[LPBBEAR]

40. Where is

that 2+ years foot dragging when the country really needs it eh Merrick?