Chilling details revealed about Iran’s plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump

The Justice Department on Friday filed criminal charges in a thwarted Iran-linked plot to kill then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump before Tuesday’s presidential election, which Trump won.

According to the complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard ordered his contact, Farjad Shakeri, to prepare a plan to kill Trump in September.

You can read the complaint here:

The complaint stated that if Shakeri could not create such a plan, the operation would be stopped until after the presidential election. According to the complaint, the unnamed official thought Trump would lose and that it would be easier to hatch a plot to kill him.

Shakeri told the FBI that the official wanted a quote within seven days, a timeframe he could not meet.

“There are few actors in the world who pose as serious a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. he said in a press release. “The Justice Department has charged a source in the Iranian regime who was tasked with directing a network of accomplices to advance assassination plans against Iran’s targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.

Foreign policy expert Dr. Walid Phares said Friday that this action against the president-elect was an act of war.

“They’re targeting Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about that,” he said on the TV show “Just News, No Noise.”

The documents show that while in a New York prison, Shakeri had a “network of accomplices” to Iranian officials to plot assassination attempts on his behalf.

Other notes show that Shakeri worked with two co-conspirators to spy on targets that Iranian officials wanted to assassinate. According to CNN.

The news stated that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps asked for Shakeri’s help in planning an attack that would target Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka.