Iran denies alleged plot to target Trump before election
The Iranian foreign ministry denied allegations that Tehran planned to assassinate Donald Trump before the elections in the USA. Washington had earlier revealed that the FBI foiled an Iranian plot against the Republican candidate in the week leading up to the elections.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ismail Baghaei, "rejects allegations that Iran is implicated in an assassination attempt targeting former or current American officials," stated a declaration published by Iranian diplomacy.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that in the week leading up to the elections, the FBI thwarted an Iranian plot against Donald Trump.
They counted on Trump's defeat
According to the intelligence information, in September, an unnamed Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer commissioned a certain Farhad Shakeri to track and then kill the Republican Party candidate for president.
The instigator, who was convinced that Trump would lose the election, declared that if the task could not be accomplished before the elections, it should be done later when the protection for the (defeated) candidate would be less tight.
The Iran International portal claims that Shakeri is most likely in Iran, while two of his accomplices, accused of preparing an attack on an Iranian opposition journalist residing in the USA, are in a New York detention centre.
