The Justice Department on Friday revealed an alleged Iranian plot to kill President-elect Trump during his campaign this fall.

A newly unsealed criminal complaint reveals that Farhad Shakeri, 51, who is charged with murder-for-hire, allegedly told FBI agents an Iranian official tasked him in September with assassinating Trump.

Shakeri previously plotted with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to kill other U.S. citizens but was told by the official to put aside those efforts to focus on the former president, according to the complaint.

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