Iran Rejects Accusations of Planning to Assassinate Trump
Iran has refuted U.S. claims that it intended to assassinate Donald Trump prior to the election. Read Full Article at RT.com
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US authorities have previously charged a resident of Tehran with laying the groundwork for an attack on President-elect Donald Trump.
Iran has denied the allegations made by the US, asserting that it did not attempt to orchestrate a plot to assassinate Trump before the November election. The Iranian government has dismissed these accusations as a hoax fabricated by pro-Israel entities to heighten tensions between Washington and Tehran.
On Friday, the US Department of Justice announced that Iranian officials had instructed a man named Farhad Shakeri to “provide a plan” to kill Trump, and he was also allegedly tasked with carrying out assassinations of US and Israeli citizens within the US. Shakeri, described as an Afghan national living in Tehran, had been deported from the US in 2008 after serving a lengthy prison sentence for robbery.
The indictment implicated two American citizens, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, who were accused of assisting Tehran in tracking a US citizen of Iranian descent. “The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target US citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump, other government leaders and dissidents who criticize the regime in Tehran,” stated FBI Director Christopher Wray.
On Saturday, Esmaeil Baghaei, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, firmly rejected the accusations, deeming them “completely baseless.” He remarked, “Such claims at this juncture [are] a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles, aimed at further complicating the issues between the US and Iran.”
Baghaei noted that Iran had previously denied similar “false” allegations, referencing an indictment from the US Department of Justice in August that accused a Pakistani national of being sent to the US by Iran to commit murders, with one of the planned attacks allegedly targeting Trump.
Earlier this year, Trump was the subject of two assassination attempts prior to the election. The first occurred in July when Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at him during a rally in Pennsylvania, with one bullet grazing Trump’s ear. The would-be assassin was killed immediately by the Secret Service.
The second incident took place in September when a suspect named Ryan Wesley Routh allegedly attempted to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course but was intercepted by security.
Ramin Sohrabi for TROIB News
Iran has denied the allegations made by the US, asserting that it did not attempt to orchestrate a plot to assassinate Trump before the November election. The Iranian government has dismissed these accusations as a hoax fabricated by pro-Israel entities to heighten tensions between Washington and Tehran.
On Friday, the US Department of Justice announced that Iranian officials had instructed a man named Farhad Shakeri to “provide a plan” to kill Trump, and he was also allegedly tasked with carrying out assassinations of US and Israeli citizens within the US. Shakeri, described as an Afghan national living in Tehran, had been deported from the US in 2008 after serving a lengthy prison sentence for robbery.
The indictment implicated two American citizens, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, who were accused of assisting Tehran in tracking a US citizen of Iranian descent. “The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target US citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump, other government leaders and dissidents who criticize the regime in Tehran,” stated FBI Director Christopher Wray.
On Saturday, Esmaeil Baghaei, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, firmly rejected the accusations, deeming them “completely baseless.” He remarked, “Such claims at this juncture [are] a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles, aimed at further complicating the issues between the US and Iran.”
Baghaei noted that Iran had previously denied similar “false” allegations, referencing an indictment from the US Department of Justice in August that accused a Pakistani national of being sent to the US by Iran to commit murders, with one of the planned attacks allegedly targeting Trump.
Earlier this year, Trump was the subject of two assassination attempts prior to the election. The first occurred in July when Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at him during a rally in Pennsylvania, with one bullet grazing Trump’s ear. The would-be assassin was killed immediately by the Secret Service.
The second incident took place in September when a suspect named Ryan Wesley Routh allegedly attempted to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course but was intercepted by security.
Ramin Sohrabi for TROIB News
