THE Department of Justice has unsealed federal charges against an Iranian official in connected with a thwarted plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump.
The alleged assassination plot against Trump was planned to take place before the November 5 presidential election, according to a criminal complaint.
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An unnamed official with Iran‘s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard contacted a man identified as Farhad Shakeri in September and instructed him to put together a plan to take out Trump, 78, federal officials said.
Shakeri, a career criminal who previously served 14 years in a United States prison for a robbery conviction, used a network of criminal associates he met in prison to conduct surveillance and assassination operations on behalf of the Iranian government.
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