The US government has charged three men in a foiled plot by the Iran regime to kill president-elect Donald Trump, highlighting yet another attempt on the Republican’s life.
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The extraordinary details of the plot were unveiled for the first time in an indictment that was unsealed on Friday . Trump has previously been briefed by intelligence officials about the potential threat to his life and said in September that if he were president and another country threatened a US presidential candidate, it would risk being “blown to smithereens”.“There have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve, but possibly do, Iran, but I don’t really know,” he said at an event in North Carolina.
This changed on October 7, when they told him to focus only on Trump, giving him seven days to formulate an assassination plan. Shakeri told investigators that if he was unable to come up with a plan within a week, they would wait until after the election. Shakeri, who is believed to be at large in Tehran, was charged with “murder-for-hire”, alongside two other men he met while serving time in US prison for robbery: New York residents Carlisle Rivera, 49; and Jonathon Loadholt, 36.
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