Iran denies Trump assassination plot: Iran has strongly denied involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate former U.S. President Donald Trump, following criminal charges filed in a federal court in Manhattan. The complaint, unsealed by the U.S. Justice Department, claims an Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard official ordered surveillance and planning to target Trump.Iran rejects accusations as malicious conspiracyResponding to the allegations, Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, dismissed the charges as “completely baseless,” suggesting the claims are an attempt by “Zionist and anti-Iranian circles” to further strain relations between the U.S. and Iran. “Iran has faced similar unfounded accusations in the past, all of which have been firmly denied and proven false,” he said, as reported by Fox News.Details of the alleged plotThe federal complaint alleges that in September, an unnamed official from Irans Revolutionary Guard instructed Farjad Shakeri, a contact, to devise a plan to monitor and potentially kill Trump. According to the complaint, Shakeri informed the FBI he did not intend to fulfill the plot within the seven-day timeframe initially set by the Iranian official.The complaint further stated that if a plan could not be arranged before the U.S. presidential election, the official suggested postponing the attempt, assuming Trump would lose and be more accessible afterward. The charges, unsealed shortly after Trumps recent election victory, underscore what U.S. officials have characterized as ongoing Iranian efforts to target American government officials on U.S. soil.
