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US justice department files charges over alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump

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Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

The US justice department is bringing criminal charges over an Iranian plot to kill the president-elect, Donald Trump, that was thwarted by the FBI, the government said.

The federal government has unsealed criminal charges in what the justice department said was a murder-for-hire plan to take out Trump before this week’s presidential election, which he won decisively over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.

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