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Politics
Griffin Eckstein

DOJ: Iran plotted to assassinate Trump

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran was working through agents to kill an American journalist and plot an assassination of President-elect Donald Trump, the Department of Justice alleged in a complaint shared Friday.

According to the DOJ, Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathon Loadholt were all involved in a series of murder-for-hire plots on behalf of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Shakeri was allegedly approached by the IRGC in October and asked to plot an assassination of Trump.

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