U.S. judicial authorities announced on Friday the indictment of an “Iranian agent” accused of receiving orders from Tehran to orchestrate assassination plans within the United States, specifically targeting Donald Trump and an Iranian-American dissident, accusations the Islamic Republic categorically denies.

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei dismissed the allegations as “completely unfounded,” according to a statement released on Saturday.
Baghaei also referred to the repeated claims as a “repugnant conspiracy by anti-Iranian and Zionist circles” to complicate U.S.-Iran relations.

He reiterated that Iran would use “all lawful and legitimate means, both domestically and internationally, to protect the Iranian people’s rights.”

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Court documents state that Farhad Shakari, a 51-year-old Afghan living in Iran after serving 14 years in prison in the U.S. for robbery, is accused of recruiting criminals on behalf of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland stated, “Few entities in the world pose as serious a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran.”

He added that this “Iranian regime-affiliated criminal network was tasked with executing assassination plans, including targeting former President Donald Trump.”

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The conclusions are based on phone conversations between the FBI and Shakari, who sought leniency for an inmate in the U.S., according to the prosecutor’s office.

Court documents reveal that Shakari received orders from a senior Revolutionary Guard official to monitor Trump and consider assassinating him after the presidential elections.

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For years, the Islamic Republic has expressed a desire to avenge the death of General Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020, in Iraq by an American drone strike ordered by Trump.

Trump narrowly escaped two assassination attempts, one in July in Pennsylvania and another in September in Florida.

Two Americans, Carlyle Rivera and Jonathan Lodeholt, were also indicted Thursday for plotting to kill an Iranian-American journalist critical of the Iranian regime, identified as Masih Alinejad.