Iranian officials,at the time,dismissed the allegation,with Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei calling the report a plot by Israel-linked circles to make Iran-US relations more complicated.
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Investigators were told of the plan to kill Trump by Shakeri,an accused Iranian government asset who spent time in American prisons for robbery and who authorities say maintained a network of criminal associates enlisted by Tehran for surveillance and murder-for-hire plots,according to the complaint.
Shakeri,an Afghan national living in Iran,told the FBI that a contact in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed him last September to set aside other work and assemble a plan within seven days to assassinate Trump,according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan.
Trump recently revoked government security protection for former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and his top aide,Brian Hook,as well as his former national security adviser John Bolton,who have all faced threats from Iran after they took hardline stances against the Islamic republic during Trump’s first administration.