'Iranian agent' tried to hire hitmen for possible assassination of ...

An alleged Iranian agent plotted to hire hitmen to assassinate US government officials — including possibly former President Donald Trump ...

Iranian Asset Farhad Shakeri Employed Multiple Associates in the New York City Area to Surveil and Murder a U.S. Citizen of Iranian Origin ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice on Friday charged an Iranian man in a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump and ...

Still, the filing suggests a haphazard pivot to push two hired assassins to kill Trump, shifting from plans to murder an Iranian-American ...

Asif Merchant, 46, faces a single count of murder for hire after, prosecutors say, he paid $5,000 to an undercover FBI agent he believed was ...

The allegation came in a complaint that said Masih Alinejad, a Brooklyn activist, had been the target of a second assassination attempt.

The Defendant Allegedly Traveled to New York City to Hire Hitmen to Murder a Politician or U.S. Government Officials on U.S. Soil ... assassins ...

The DOJ says a man with Iranian ties in New York tried to hire hitmen, a female spy, and a fake protest mob to assassinate US officials.

... hitmen to target and gun down Americans on U.S. soil and that ... agents whom the IRGC would pay for the successful murder of its targets.

... assassination attempt, a law enforcement official said. But an FBI ... Given the seriousness of the murder for hire charges, the ...

... murder-for-hire scheme to assassinate former President Donald Trump ... Merchant sought to hire hitmen who could carry out the assassination ...

Asif Merchant is accused of seeking a hitman to kill unnamed officials as revenge for US assassination of Iranian military chief.

Asif Merchant was arrested in the murder-for-hire case a day before a gunman narrowly missed killing Donald Trump at a campaign rally in ...

A Pakistani national with ties to Iran was arrested last month while trying to hire a hitman to kill a top US official ... potential hitmen, ...

A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran is accused by the Justice Department of being part of a murder-for-hire plot against former ...

Feds bring charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Trump ... hitmen to target and gun down Americans on U.S. soil and that simply ...

Pakistani man charged with murder-for-hire plot that may have targeted Trump. U.S. officials see ties to Iran, but no link to the assassination ...

... hit man to try and kill a political figure, the Justice Department said ... "Fortunately, the assassins Merchant allegedly tried to hire were ...

Merchant did not say whom he wanted to assassinate in his discussions with the informant, but said he hoped to pull off the killing, or killings ...

... killing" and asked the FBI informant to set up meetings with potential hitmen. Court papers revealed the plot included stealing documents or ...