Iran roundly dismisses claims of assassination plot targeting Trump
Iran has categorically denied "baseless" claims of an assassination attempt on American soil targeting Republican president-elect Donald Trump just weeks before the November 5 election. | In a statement on Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the allegations as “completely baseless and unsubstantiated,” a day after the US Justice Department unsealed criminal charges that include details of a plot allegedly backed by Iran to kill Trump before Tuesday’s election. ● A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) instructed a contact to develop a plan to surveil and ultimately kill the businessman-turned-politician. ● Baghaei said the repetition of such claims at this juncture is “a malicious conspiracy by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles aimed at further complicating the issues between the United States and Iran.”