The Department of Justice has arrested and charged multiple Iranian assets for their connection to a murder-for-hire network — with targets that included President-elect Donald Trump.
“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Friday statement. “The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.”
He continued, “We have also charged and arrested two individuals who we allege were recruited as part of that network to silence and kill, on U.S.