Tehran issued the order and price was no object. Stalk and kill Donald Trump and do it within a week of October 7. If it didn’t happen by then, the contingency plan was to try again after the election. There were a few problems with their plan, one was infiltration by the FBI and the other was Trump winning the election. The Secret Service continues to expect another attempt, so he won’t be as easy to kill as the Ayatollah hoped.
Tehran gave the order
A “bombshell indictment unsealed by Manhattan federal prosecutors Friday” says Tehran ordered a hit on President Donald Trump. The Iranian government officially “instructed one of its agents to stalk and assassinate” the conservative world leader.
Iranian national Farhad Shakeri was charged along with two New York City residents. They don’t have him in custody, though. An Iranian journalist was also targeted by the same team.
Allegations of “murder for hire and conspiracy” against Shakeri declare that “an unnamed official” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gave him direct orders. He was instructed by Tehran to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”
The Ayatollah wanted it done by mid-October. He managed to escape back to Iran but his co-conspirators have been filling in the gaps.
Shakeri allegedly advised his superior officer that what he was being ordered to do would “cost a ‘huge‘ amount of money.” That’s not a problem, he was assured. Tehran had an unlimited budget for that expense.
The official pointed out “we have already spent a lot of money. So, the money’s not an issue.” Without revealing exactly how they placed their source, the charging documents relate that Shakeri revealed his objective “in a phone conversation with an undercover FBI agent.”
Within seven days
Shakeri had no idea he was talking to an undercover fed when he passed along his instructions. The IRGC told him on October 7 “to have a plan in place” to kill Trump “within seven days.” In another communication “Shakeri also inadvertently told the FBI that he had been instructed by Iran to plot a mass shooting targeting Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka.”
Tehran wasn’t happy to hear that both U.S. and Israeli governments issued “a travel warning for the island nation on October 23.”
Realizing that the previous attempts on Trump’s life had his security team on higher alert than normal, the Ayatollah had some tolerance for their hitman’s performance.
“If the agent did not meet his deadline, the IRGC contact allegedly said, the hit on Trump would be postponed until after the election.” That’s another thing their intelligence units got wrong. They won’t believe another word John Kerry tells them. “Tehran apparently assessed that the Republican nominee would lose.”
Afterward, they told their assassin, “it would be easier to assassinate Trump.” Even if he wasn’t president, Trump is way too dangerous for Tehran to allow him to continue breathing.
The paperwork charges Shakeri along with “Brooklyn native” Carlisle Rivera and Staten Islander Jonathan Loadholt. Both Rivera and Loadholt “were ordered held pending trial Thursday by US Magistrate Judge Jennifer Willis.“
