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Iranian Murder-for-Hire Plot Targeted Trump: DOJ

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) gala at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., November 14, 2024.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sought to hire a network of U.S.-based criminal convicts to kill President-elect Donald Trump, in addition to other targets including Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad and two other New Yorkers.

The murder-for-hire scheme was revealed in court documents unsealed today in Manhattan. The Justice Department said two of the defendants were arrested in New York City and a third remains at large in Iran.

Jimmy Quinn

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Jimmy Quinn

Jimmy Quinn is the former national security correspondent for National Review.

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