The Iranian Government has denied any type of connection with an alleged plot to assassinate the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, after the United States Department of Justice announced this Friday the indictment of three people for their connection to this alleged plot. .
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baqaei, has denounced some “baseless” accusations and “similar to those formulated against Iran in the past, and which ended up being proven false.”
The main defendant is Farhad Shakeri, whom Iran, according to the accusation, had given orders to assassinate an American citizen of Iranian origin in New York, as well as the next president Donald Trump. While he remains at large, His two cronies, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathon Loadholt, have been arrested.
Shakeri, Rivera and Loadholt have been charged with attempted murder for hire, conspiracy to commit murder and money laundering. The sum of these three crimes They can carry maximum sentences of up to 40 years in prison.
For his part, Shakeri, who is believed to be in Iran, has been accused of other terrorism crimes and violating sanctions laws, which could result in him another prison sentence of up to 60 years.
In response, and in a statement published on the Ministry’s website, the Iranian spokesperson denounced what happened as the result of a “malicious conspiracy orchestrated by the Zionists (Israel) and anti-Iranian circles that have no other intention than to further complicate the relationship between the United States and Iran.”
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