Iran foreign ministry says Trump assassination plot claim 'totally unfounded'

The Iran foreign ministry said on Sept. 9 (local time) that US accusations that Iran plotted to kill Trump were "unfounded," AP News reported.

The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week's election with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect, according to AP News.

Investigators were told of the plan to kill Trump by Farhad Shakeri, an accused Iranian government asset who spent time in American prisons for robbery and who authorities say maintains a network of criminal associates enlisted by Tehran for surveillance and murder-for-hire plots. Shakeri is at large and remains in Iran.

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