Iran is suspected of assassination plans regarding US soil
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Even before US airstrikes, they “decapitated” the trio Iran’s nuclear facilities Over the weekend, the country’s radical Islamic government has already levelled the death threat and is said to be plotting an assassination in American soil.
Federal authorities call Iran the terrorist sponsor of the world’s largest state, and the FBI says the Iranian government has imprisoned Americans on baseless charges and harassed dissidents in exile.
“Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility has completely disappeared,” said the president. Donald Trump He said in a national broadcast statement from the White House on Saturday after American stealth bombers blasted three facilities. “And now, Iran, a bully in the Middle East, must make peace, or future attacks will be much bigger and much easier.”
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Iranians shout anti-US and anti-Israel slogans during a rally to condemn the attack on Iran in Tehran on June 20, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
The bombing came amid an increasingly deadly conflict involving Iran and Israel fighting the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas.
last yearsaid the Justice Department had hampered the conspiracy to kill Trump after Election Day. Separately, the DOJ has announced the arrests and convictions of two other Iranian assets accused of killing American journalists. Mass IndentationHe was critical of theocracy.
“I was shocked,” she said. Posted on X at the time. “I learned from the @FBI that two men had been arrested yesterday for a new conspiracy to kill me at Fairfield University, where I was scheduled to give a lecture. I also learned that the person who assigned to assassinate @RealdonaldTrump was assigned to kill me in US soil.
State-run Iranian newspapers are asking for bullets to be fired at Trump’s “empty skull”
Masi Arinehad, 48, a well-known Iranian-American human rights activist, attended an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany on November 9, 2024. (ap photo/ebrahim noroozi, file)
Another suspicious Iranian agent is an ASIF merchant. The Pakistani man has been accused of trying to hire a hit man at a Brooklyn nightclub on suspicion of assassination plot targeting key Trump figures, posing as an international clothing salesman.
“For 40 years, Iran has been saying, “Death to America, Death to Israel.” They killed our people, blew our arms away, and blew our legs out with roadside bombs,” Trump said Saturday. “It was their specialty. We lost over 1,000 people, especially hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and around the world, especially as a direct result of their hatred.”
President Donald Trump speaks on Saturday, June 21, 2025, after US troops struck three Iranian nuclear and military locations from the east chamber of the White House. (Carlos barrier/pool via AP)
Other threats may not come directly from Iran, but at least in part, it appears to have been inspired by the regime there.
Name of the 23-year-old Texas born in March 2022. Nika Nikbin He lured the man to a hotel in Las Vegas for sex and stabbed him in the neck. She said initially the stab wounds came as revenge against Iran’s drone strike. General Kasem Soleimani is a designated terrorist leader whose Department of Defense condemned hundreds of American troops and thousands of seriously injured deaths.
Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds forces, will be attending the annual rally in Tehran on February 11, 2016, commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (ap photo/ebrahim noroozi, file)
A few days before Trump ordered a drone strike that killed him, Motemani has coordinated a fatal attack on US bases in Iraq. Authorities said Iran has been seeking retaliation for his death for many years. Also in 2022, federal prosecutors accused another Iranian agent of former White House national security adviser John Bolton of being killed for $300,000.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton and IRGC member Shalam Posafy (Reuters; FBI)
Shahram Purnafi, Also known as Mehdi Rezayi, according to the Justice Department, he allegedly tried to hire assassins in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. He had a second unknown target who was willing to pay up to $1 million to kill, authorities said.
“Iran has a history of planning to assassinate US individuals, which is considered a threat, but the US government has a history of being responsible for threatening the safety of our citizens,” said Larissa Knap, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security division. “There is no doubt. The FBI, the US government and our partners remain vigilant in fighting such threats here in the US and abroad.”
Back in 2013, an Iranian-born US citizen named Mansol Albabusia was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to kill a Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.
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Mansol Ahbabusia has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy to kill the Saudi ambassador (Nueces County Sheriff’s Office)
For $100,000 from the Iranian Quds force, the Iranian military unit run by Soleimani, Arbabsiar tried to hire an assassin from a Mexican drug cartel, which was actually a DEA informant.
Big Iran. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the country’s “aerospace forces,” had called for the deaths of President Trump, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other US authorities following Soleimani’s death. he, Israeli air bombing last week.
Federal prosecutors also blamed Iranian agents on cybercrimes, including attacks on the presidential elections from both parties.
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On Monday, Iran launched missiles towards U.S. Ardeid Air Force Base in Qatar, the Pentagon’s largest military facility in the Middle East.
None of them reached the base, according to Fox News.
Liz Friden and Emma Colton of Fox News contributed to this report.