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Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump
ktla ^ | ERIC TUCKER and LARRY NEUMEISTER,

Posted on 11/08/2024 3:35:00 PM PST by BenLurkin

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Shakeri, an Afghan national who immigrated to the U.S. as a child but was later deported after spending 14 years in prison for robbery, also told investigators that he was tasked by his Revolutionary Guard contact with plotting the killings of two Jewish-Americans living in New York and Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka. Officials say he overlapped with Rivera while in prison as well as an unidentified co-conspirator.

The criminal complaint says Shakeri disclosed some of the details of the alleged plots in a series of recorded telephone interviews with FBI agents while in Iran. The stated reason for his cooperation, he told investigators, was to try to get a reduced prison sentence for an associate behind bars in the U.S.

According to the complaint, though officials determined that some of the information he provided was false, his statements regarding a plot to kill Trump and Iran’s willingness to pay large sums of money were determined to be accurate.

The plot, announced by the Justice Department just days after Trump’s defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris, is part of what federal officials have described as ongoing efforts by Iran to target U.S. government officials, including Trump, on U.S. soil. Last summer, for instance, the Justice Department charged a Pakistani man with ties to Iran in a murder-for-hire plot targeting American officials.

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1 posted on 11/08/2024 3:35:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Call me skeptical that he’s revealing publicly that he has contacts with Iran. Sounds like he was hoping the US government would pay him for information to protect Trump.


2 posted on 11/08/2024 3:40:56 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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This just proved Biden and his crooked DOJ (and everyone in it) wanted Trump dead and KNEW assassins were working on it.


3 posted on 11/08/2024 3:59:07 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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