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U.S. authorities thwarted an ongoing Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, according to new charges released by the Justice Department.

U.S. authorities thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, new documents reveal.

The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges on Nov. 8 against three men who it is alleged were involved in a murder-for-hire network orchestrated by Iranโ€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the United States designates as a terrorist organization.

โ€œThe 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 Iranโ€™s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump,โ€ Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an associated statement.

โ€œWe will not stand for the Iranian regimeโ€™s attempts to endanger the American people and Americaโ€™s national security.โ€

The Justice Department said that authorities arrested Carlisle Rivera and Jonathon Loadholt in New York, and that a third man, Farhad Shakeri, remained at large and was believed to be in Iran.

Shakeri 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.

The criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in the IRGC instructed a Shakeri in September to put together a plan to surveil and ultimately kill Trump.

Shakeri was unable to create a plan by then, the complaint said, and the official told him Iran would pause its plan until after the presidential election because the official believed Trump would lose and it would be easier to assassinate him then.

Shakeri then went to work building a network of accomplices, offering $100,000 to locate and kill Trump and other individuals of U.S. and Israeli origin, according to the complaint.

โ€œWe 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,โ€ Garland said.

Byย Andrew Thornebrooke

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