Three days after President Donald Trump was elected to his second term, then-President Joe Biden's Justice Department published a press release that included a statement by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland -- and cited murderous acts Iran was allegedly planning to perpetrate inside the United States.

"There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran," Garland said in this release. "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."

Nor was Trump Iran's only target, according to Garland.

"We have also charged and arrested two individuals who we allege were recruited as part of that network to silence and kill, on U.S. soil, an American journalist who has been a prominent critic of the regime," said Biden's attorney general.

"We will not stand for the Iranian regime's attempts to endanger the American people and America's national security," Garland said.

In this release, the Biden Justice Department said: "According to the complaint and other public statements and filings, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ... is actively targeting nationals of the United States and its allies living in countries around the world for attacks, including assault, kidnapping, and murder, both to repress and silence dissidents critical of the Iranian regime and to take vengeance for the January 2020 death of then-Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Qods Force (IRGD-QF), Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad."

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