Donald Trump: Iran commissioned assassination – three people charged

Three people have been charged in a plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump. Iran is said to be behind the conspiracy. The ad was published on Friday. Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt are charged with murder-for-hire by the US Department of Justice.

Rivera and Loadholt are Americans and live in New York. According to the indictment, the Revolutionary Guards are said to have planned the attack to avenge the death of Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in a US drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020. They are said to have commissioned Shakeri to spy on and kill Trump.

“There are few actors in the world that pose as great a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran. The Justice Department has indicted an Iranian regime agent who was hired by the regime to run a network of criminal associates, to further Iran’s assassination plans against its targets, including President-elect Donald J. Trump,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Shakeri emigrated to the USA. After spending a long time in prison for robbery, he was deported in 2008. He met Rivera and Loadholt in prison. Shakeri said in an interview that he was tasked with carrying out the plan by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in September, prosecutors said. He was ordered to stop other activities he was doing for the Revolutionary Guard and to “focus on the surveillance and eventual assassination” of Donald Trump, according to the criminal complaint.

The agent told a Revolutionary Guard official that such a plan would cost a “huge” sum of money, the indictment says. The official then said: “We have already spent a lot of money.” Money is “not a problem,” he added. Before focusing on Trump, Shakeri targeted dissidents with his criminal network. He promised Rivera and Loadholt $100,000 if they could locate an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime.

It is not clear from the indictment why Shakeri was able to be questioned and evade prosecution. Shakeri is currently said to be in Tehran. Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt were arrested.

“Iranian government-directed actors continue to target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad. This must stop,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “Today’s charges send another message to those who continue their efforts – we will be tireless in pursuing criminals no matter where they are and will stop at nothing to bring to justice those who threaten our safety. “

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