A criminal complaint against an Iranian agent and two U.S. citizens charged with plotting to assassinate Donald Trump and other enemies of the Iranian regime was unsealed Friday.
The 26-page document details how Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national who spent 14 years in New York State prisons, conspired with his former prison buddies at the behest of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Shakeri was deported in 2008 after completing that prison sentence for burglary, and currently lives in Tehran. Two of his co-conspirators, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, were charged in the complaint and made their first appearances Thursday.
From the Southern District of New York’s press release:
According to the complaint and other public statements and filings, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (the Government of Iran) is actively targeting nationals of the…
