Carlisle 'Pop' Rivera, a 49-year-old welder from Brooklyn, New York, was allegedly brought into the plot by Farhad Shakeri.

"The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump," said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in a news release.

The Justice Department charged a man on Friday who was tasked with planning an Iranian plot to murder President-elect Trump ahead of the election. The big picture: U.S. officials have long warned about Iran targeting American leaders.

A man who said he had been tasked by an Iranian government official to carry out the assassination of Donald Trump has been charged, the US Justice Department announced

The FBI is investigating Iranian efforts to destabilize the U.S., including a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Donald Trump.

The charges allege an Iranian conspiracy to kill Donald Trump in revenge for the 2020 killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

NEW YORK — The Iranian government ordered an operative to assassinate Donald Trump before the 2024 election, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Friday, the latest in a string of assassination plots directed at the former and future president in recent months.

A few weeks ago, Trump’s campaign team announced that it had been informed by the U.S. Secret Service about real and concrete threats from Iran to assassinate him. The U.S. Justice Department has accused Iran of plotting the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump.

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.