In a statement on Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the allegations as “completely baseless and unsubstantiated,” emphasizing that repetition of such claims at this juncture is “a malicious conspiracy by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles aimed at further complicating the issues between the United States and Iran.”
Baghaei underlined that the Islamic Republic of Iran will utilize “all legitimate and legal means at domestic and international levels to restore the rights of the Iranian nation.”
The US Justice Department on November 8 unsealed criminal charges that include details of a plot allegedly backed by Iran to kill Trump before Tuesday’s election.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) instructed a contact to develop a plan to surveil and ultimately kill the businessman-turned-politician.
In August, Iran dismissed having any connection with a Pakistani individual allegedly arrested in the United States and charged with being behind a foiled plot to assassinate US politicians.
On July 13, Trump survived an assassination attempt while campaigning in Butler, Pennsylvania, suffering only minor injury to his ear.
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