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 <em>“The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target U.S. citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump,”</em> said FBI Director <strong>Christopher Wray</strong>.
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 During the FBI’s investigation into another case, a 51-year-old man from Iran with Afghan citizenship said that a few weeks before the U.S. presidential election, he had been instructed by Iran to present and implement a plan to assassinate Trump.
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 The investigators consider the statements to be credible.
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 A few weeks ago, Trump’s campaign team announced that it had been informed by the U.S. Secret Service about real and concrete threats from Iran to assassinate him.
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 The U.S. judiciary has brought charges against the 51-year-old and two other men also accused of plotting to assassinate an Iranian dissident.
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 Arrest warrants have been issued for the men.
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 <em>“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran,” </em>warned Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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 <em>“We will not stand for the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security,”</em> Gerland insisted.
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 In his first term as U.S. president, Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran, imposed new sanctions against the country, and classified the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organisation.
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 In 2020, the U.S. military killed Iranian General <strong>Qassem Soleimani</strong> in a drone strike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Trump’s orders.
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