(CNN) Hannah Rabinowitz - The U.S. Justice Department on Nov. 9 announced federal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election. According to court documents, Iranian officials asked Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump. Shakeri, an Afghan national residing in Tehran, is still at large in Iran. This is a newly disclosed plot and marks yet another attempt on Trump's life by the Iranian regime. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday, "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....There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran."
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