If Biden's handlers won't let him retaliate by killing a few Iranians, starting at the top, maybe Trump can ask the Israelis to exercise their proven skill in this department

Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump revealed as 2 New Yorkers also busted in plan to kill journalist

Iran instructed one of its agents running a New York City-based criminal network to stalk and assassinate former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election’s final weeks — telling him that “money’s not an issue,” the feds revealed Friday.

An unnamed official in Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tasked Farhad Shakeri, 51, during September to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating” Trump, according to a bombshell criminal complaint unsealed by Manhattan federal prosecutors Friday.

In a phone conversation with an FBI agent, Shakeri, who did time in US prisons for robbery, said the Iranian official told him Oct. 7 to have a plan in place to kill Trump “within seven days.”

If Shakeri did not meet his deadline, the contact allegedly said the hit on Trump would be postponed until after the Nov. 5 election, because Tehran officials believed that the Republican nominee would lose “and, afterward, it would be easier to assassinate [him].”

Shakeri, who is believed to be in Iran and out of the reach of American justice, is also charged with conspiring to violate US sanctions against Iran, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and conspiracy to the same. 

He spoke with FBI agents by phone five times between late September and as recently as Thursday in hopes of obtaining a sentence reduction for an unnamed person in a US prison, according to the complaint.

The complaint details that Shakeri was born in Afghanistan and emigrated to the US as a child, but was deported in 2008 after serving a 14-year prison sentence for robbery. 

During his time behind bars, Shakeri met Rivera and Loadholt, later recruiting them to be hitmen, according to the complaint.

The feds say Shakeri initially tasked his cohorts with killing Iranian American activist and journalist Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the Tehran regime who has been targeted for assassination in the past by Iran. 

…. Shakeri also told the FBI that he had been instructed by Iran to plot a mass shooting targeting Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka — which prompted the US and Israeli governments to issue a travel warning for the island nation on Oct. 23.

“Actors directed by the Government of Iran continue to target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on US soil and abroad,” Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement Friday. “This has to stop.”

“This has to stop.” Ooooh, scary.
The Biden war machine has responded with tough- guy talk;

'Act of war': Biden administration under pressure to respond to Iran's plot to kill Trump

Both President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Fox News in October that they considered any Iranian threats against Trump to be a "top-tier" national security issue, and said any attempt by the IRGC to actually harm Trump would be met with kinetic military action equal to "an act of war.”

… Trump has been a target of the IRGC since January 2020, when as president he ordered the drone strike that killed the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani.

News of the thwarted attack on Trump comes after he survived two earlier and unrelated assassination attempts earlier this year while campaigning for a second term as president: The first, in July at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, and then in September, while golfing at one of his properties in Florida. 

The threats from Iran, detailed in the now-public criminal filings, prompted the Secret Service to beef up their security presence around the Trump campaign in recent months.

So, the two assassination attempts occurred while the Secret Service bumblers were aware of the threats and providing “beefed-up” protection? Great.

What else are these clowns going to do?

The DOJ is preparing charges against Iran over its efforts to influence the 2024 election cycle. 

That’ll learn ‘em.