DOJ charges Iranian man in alleged plot to assassinate Trump, others on U.S. soil

Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Federal authorities on Friday revealed murder-for-hire charges against an Iranian man accused of acting on behalf of a terrorist organization in a plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump on U.S. soil.

Farhad Shakeri, 51, is also charged acting on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to oversee two American accomplices in a separate scheme to slay an unnamed American journalist of Iranian descent, identified as an "outspoken" critic of the Tehran regime.

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