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 ...

Carlisle Rivera was arrested on charges that he was recruited by an Iranian government asset to kill US citizen and Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad.

The details of an unsealed Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump raise questions about how the current administration will act, as President Joe Biden previously warned Iran that the United States would consider its targeting of the Republican nominee as an "act of war.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national believed to be in Iran, in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump. Prosecutors say Shakeri was directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to create a plan to kill Trump, with initial plans paused until after the election.

Iran has denied its involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate United States President-elect Donald Trump. An Afghanistan national has been charged by the US Justice Department in connection to the plan.