
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Washington DC, in a shocking turn of events, the U.S. Justice Department revealed an alleged Iranian-backed assassination plot aimed at President-elect Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign. Details were unveiled Friday in a newly unsealed criminal complaint against Farhad Shakeri,51, charged with murder-for-hire. Shakeri reportedly admitted to FBI agents that an Iranian official tasked him in September with killing Trump.