The details of an unsealed Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump raise questions about how the current administration will act, as President Joe Biden previously warned

An Iranian operative told investigators that he was tasked in September with assassinating Trump, according to court records unsealed Friday.

The president-elect, who was targeted in two unrelated assassination attempts, claimed earlier this year there were threats against his life coming from Iran.

Three people have been charged in alleged Iranian plot to kill Americans, including President-elect Donald Trump.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national believed to be in Iran, in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump. Prosecutors say Shakeri was directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to create a plan to kill Trump, with initial plans paused until after the election.

The FBI thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said on Friday as it charged an Iranian national and arrested two American citizens for involvement in a plot to murder the Republican president-elect.

US prosecutors announced charges on Friday in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist.

Iran hired a hitman to assassinate Donald Trump weeks before the presidential election, the US said on Friday as it announced criminal charges against three suspects.The Department of Justice (DoJ) revealed it had thwarted the murder-for-hire plot ordered by the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in revenge for Mr Trump’s fatal 2020 strike on the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.