Mullahs Tried to Kill Trump

 On Friday, the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint that alleges an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump:

Investigators were told of the plan to kill Trump by Farhad Shakeri, an accused Iranian government asset who spent time in American prisons for robbery and who authorities say maintains a network of criminal associates enlisted by Tehran for surveillance and murder-for-hire plots.

Shakeri told the FBI that a contact in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed him this past September to set aside other work he was doing and assemble a plan within seven days to surveil and ultimately kill Trump, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan.

Shakeri is in Iran, but two confederates have been arrested.

The official was quoted by Shakeri as saying that “We have already spent a lot of money” and that “money’s not an issue.” Shakeri told investigators the official told him that if he could not put together a plan within the seven-day timeframe, then the plot would be paused until after the election because the official assumed Trump would lose and that it would be easier to kill him then, the complaint said.

Heh. The mullahs read The Washington Post. Interesting that Iran wanted Trump dead even if he lost the election.

Other Iranian murder plots are discussed in the linked AP article, although they don’t mention that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo still receives protection as he remains under a death sentence from Tehran. It is unclear (from this story, at least) whether any of Iran’s plots have succeeded.

While expecting Trump to lose, Iran wasn’t taking any chances:

Iranian operatives also conducted a hack-and-leak operation of emails belonging to Trump campaign associates in what officials have assessed was an effort to interfere in the presidential election and harm Trump’s campaign.

Somehow this didn’t draw the condemnations of “foreign interference” that we have seen in other instances.

I don’t suppose the mullahs’ motivation requires explanation, but the AP says:

Intelligence officials have said Iran opposed Trump’s reelection, seeing him as more likely to increase tension between Washington and Tehran. Trump’s administration ended a nuclear deal with Iran, reimposed sanctions and ordered the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, an act that prompted Iran’s leaders to vow revenge.

The mullahs like the Democrats, starting with Barack Obama, who have slid them billions of dollars and, unaccountably, have helped their efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.

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