The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges for individuals involved in a thwarted plot by Iran to kill President-elect Donald Trump before the election.
Three people were charged in the alleged murder-for-hire plot.
The criminal complaint filed in Manhattan alleges an unnamed official in the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed a contact in September to put together a plan to surveil and kill Trump, according to the Associated Press.
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The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges on a thwarted plot by Iran to kill President-elect Donald Trump before the election.
