The Biden Department of Justice is now revealing that two individuals linked to an alleged plot to assassinate President Trump have been arrested, with 1 person involved in the plot still at large.
The individual still at large has been identified by the DOJ as 51 year old Farhad Shakeri, whose job it was to “focus on surveilling, and ultimately, assassinating” President Trump, according to the DOJ criminal complaint which has just been unsealed in a federal court in New York City.
As we have previously reported, this is likely the most dangerous time period for President Trump. Nationally there are factions within the United States who would rather see an assassin’s bullet not miss it’s mark, and internationally the story is no different.
While patriots and freedom-loving Americans from all walks of life are celebrating the recent sweeping victory of President Trump at the ballot box, the fact is the threat to him now is more intense than they have ever been against a U.S. President since the days George Washington rode his steed into battle against the British army.
According to Fox News, the criminal complaint was unsealed today in a NYC federal court, and the U.S. DOJ, including Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland, have issued statements about the plot.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City says an unnamed official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had asked Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, in September to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”
“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.
“We have also charged and arrested two individuals who we allege were recruited as part of that network to silence and kill, on U.S. soil, an American journalist who has been a prominent critic of the regime,” Garland added. “We will not stand for the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security.”
The Justice Department says Shakeri, who remains at large and is believed to be living in Iran, “immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported in or about 2008 after serving 14 years in prison for a robbery conviction.”
“Shakeri has informed law enforcement that he was tasked on Oct. 7, 2024, with providing a plan to kill President-elect Donald J. Trump,” it added.
Check out this report from MSNBC reporting on the individual still at large, allegedly currently in Iran — who revealed the plot voluntarily, according to the reports, in an attempt to get a lesser sentence for an acquaintance currently serving time in a U.S. prison, in exchange for the information.
While rumors and concerns exist that the Biden-Harris administration may be using Iran threats as a cover for more insidious attempts on President Trump’s life from “enemies within”, the fact is Iran wants retribution for the killing of IRGC General Soleimani in 2020 by a U.S. drone strike order by President Trump. For some insight into that angle, here is the current reporting from ABC News on the alleged Iranian connection.
Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt are charged with murder-for-hire, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Rivera and Loadholt have been arrested, while Shakeri, who the FBI described as an “asset” of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is believed to be in Tehran.
The IRGC tasked Shakeri with surveilling and killing Trump to avenge the death of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020, according to the complaint.
Shakeri emigrated to the United States but was deported in 2008 after serving prison time for robbery, according to the Justice Department. While in prison, he met Rivera and Loadholt and hired them to target an Iranian American activist living in Brooklyn, according to the complaint.
While she is not named in the complaint, the activist matches the description of Masih Alinejad, a prolific journalist and human rights activist who has been critical of the Iranian government and targeted in multiple plots. Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges last month against IRGC Brig. Gen. Ruhollah Bazghandi in connection with an alleged murder plot against Alinejad.
Alinejad later posted on social media that she was one of the targets, writing, “I am shocked. I just learned from the @FBI that two men were arrested yesterday in a new plot to kill me at Fairfield University, where I was scheduled to give a talk.”
The IRGC also tasked Shakeri with carrying out other assassinations against U.S. and Israeli citizens located in the United States, including Trump, the complaint alleges.
This is breaking news, as the information has just recently been revealed with the unsealing of documents related to the case. We will bring you updates as information becomes available.
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