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Iran's Foreign Ministry described a report from the DOJ stating that it thwarted an Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump as “completely baseless and rejected."
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Iran-based suspect Farhad Shakeri allegedly told the FBI that the IRGC offered $500,000 each for the murders of four individuals.
Iran's foreign minister denies U.S. allegation of plot to kill Trump
An Iranian spokesperson said the claim was a "repulsive" plot by Israel and the Iranian opposition outside the country to "complicate matters between America and Iran."
Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump
The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect.
Iranian American activist defiant over Iranian plots to kill her, Trump
I am a woman.” Alinejad was expressing her defiance and asserting her right to express herself following the news of Iranian murder-for-hire plots to kill her and Donald Trump that were disclosed by the U.
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