As the Middle East rages on, and the US and Israel are launching a series of attacks on Iran, previously unknown information are coming to the fore. (Image X @Amritha0005 )
Washington: Now, as the Middle East rages on, and the US and Israel are launching a series of attacks on Iran, previously unknown information are coming to the fore. An Israeli expert has claimed that Iran's Khamenei regime formed a 'kill team' to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
According to a report in the New York Post, the Iranian regime has formed several 'kill teams' to assassinate President Donald Trump over the past five years. The recently toppled radical Islamic regime has issued numerous fatwas against Trump, inciting his assassination and attempting to plot his death through US-based assassins. Terrorism expert and retired Israeli Defense Forces colonel Yigal Carmon told The Post that they are mafia-like killers. They have a list of people they want to kill and have sent several spies to plan their assassinations.
Two 2024 plots were foiled, but they provide a shocking insight into the lengths the regime was willing to go to before the US Armed Forces launched an attack on Iran on February 28th and killed Ayatollah Khamenei and his associates. In one instance, the Iranian government ordered a spy to form a "kill team" and plot to assassinate Trump during his election campaign. He recruited two assassins living in the US, who were later captured.
According to court documents, spy Farhad Shakeri said he was instructed by his Iranian handlers to plan Trump's assassination on October 7, 2024. According to documents related to the assassins' trial, Shakeri told an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official that the plan would cost a substantial sum. In response, the IRGC official said, "We've already spent a lot of money, so money is not a problem."
The documents state that Shakeri implied that the IRGC had previously spent a significant amount of money on attempts to assassinate Trump and was willing to spend a significant amount of money on his own. He was also told that he had only seven days to carry out the plot. According to his interview with the FBI, he stated that if he couldn't carry it out, his IRGC handler instructed him to put the plan on hold until after the 2024 election, as they estimated that Trump would lose the election, making it easier to assassinate him.
Shakeri was born in Afghanistan but was taken to the United States as a child and deported after spending 14 years in prison for various crimes. It was during his time in prison that he developed connections with various criminal figures, eventually enabling him to recruit assassins for the Iranian regime. Shakeri had already hired two assassins. One of them was his former prison mate, Carlisle "Pop" Rivera, and the other was a man named Jonathan Loadholt. Both were New York residents. They were initially promised $100,000 to assassinate an anti-Iranian regime activist. However, they were caught before they could carry out their plan.
Both men were found guilty of contract killing, with Rivera sentenced to 15 years in prison in January. Loadholt is scheduled to be sentenced next month. Shakeri has been accused by the FBI of paying for the murder. However, this week, the US and Israeli forces said they had killed the Tehran-based "mastermind" behind the assassination attempts against Trump. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the death after the deadly attacks in Tehran, which is now widely believed to be Shakeri's boss, Rahman Moqaddam, the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) special forces unit. He was accused of assassinating Trump.
More recently, in January, a month before the US and Israel invaded the country, Iran issued a threat against Trump, releasing a photo of Trump during a 2024 assassination attempt at a Butler rally. It was accompanied by the caption, "This time, the target will not be missed." According to reports, US investigators told Trump months after the assassination attempt that they could not rule out Iran's involvement and also stated that several "kill teams" were plotting his death. Iran has targeted Trump since the US military killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020 on Trump's orders.
Carmon, a retired Israeli army officer, explained that Iranians only plan and coordinate attacks on enemies with their own citizens. He added that they do this with Iranians, not Americans. But in reality, these attacks could be carried out by any hired assassin. The second known plot against Trump was hatched by a Pakistani citizen who was told he would receive up to $1 million if the assassination was successful. According to federal court documents, a Pakistani man named Asif Merchant came to the US to recruit assassins and posed as a Pakistani clothing merchant. Asif was also part of Iran's Kill Team.
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