(UPDATE) WASHINGTON, D.C. — United States prosecutors on Friday announced charges in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist.
The foiled assassination plot on Trump was allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in January 2020 in a US strike ordered by the then-president, the Justice Department said.
