Three people charged in alleged Iran-linked assassination plot Donald Trump before the election, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in New York on Friday.

Iranian officials asked Farhad Shakeri, one of the men indicted in September, to focus on spying on and assassinating Trump, according to court documents. He is currently a fugitive in Iran.

Two New Yorkers, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, were also arrested and charged with murder for hire, the Justice Department said.

Shakeri told investigators: Revolutionary Guard contacts halted efforts to kill Trump when he failed to come up with a solid plan.

Shakeri allegedly met with Rivera and Loadholt while in prison on robbery charges and hired them to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a Brooklyn human rights activist who criticized Iran’s oppression of women.

Alinejad shared on social media that he was one of the targets. “I was shocked. “I just learned from the @FBI that two men have been arrested in a new plot to kill me at Fairfield University, where I was scheduled to speak yesterday.”

In 2022, an assassin went to Alinejad’s house and knocked on the door, but Alinejad did not answer because he was in the middle of a Zoom meeting. The suspect then got into his car and made a stop sign and was stopped by the police. led to his arrest It’s about a murder-for-hire plot.

The Justice Department said Rivera and Loadholt made their first court appearance Thursday and remained in custody pending the hearing.

The U.S. government has repeatedly expressed concerns that Iran might seek to retaliate for a U.S. drone strike ordered by Trump in 2020 that killed top Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

Trump faced multiple assassination plots in the last few months of his campaign. He was shot during a campaign rally in July. A second man was accused of attempted assassination in August when he was caught surveilling Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and golf course in Florida.