Farhad Shakeri has been hit with allegations of attempting to take out Donald Trump. Allegedly, he conspired with Iran on a murder-for-hire plot with the latter's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan man deported from the U.S. after serving prison time, allegedly plotted to assassinate Donald Trump on Iran's behalf. He reportedly collaborated with two U.S.-based accomplices in this failed attempt.

Investigators said two men — Carlisle Rivera, also known as “Pop,” of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jonathon Loadholt, of Staten Island, N.Y., — were instructed by Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, to track and kill the journalist, who authorities said was a ...