On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced new charges detailing a foiled murder-for-hire plot that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ordered against Donald Trump in the weeks before the election, piling new pressure on the Biden administration to act.

According to a newly sealed document criminal complaintFiled in the Southern District of New York, the IRGC ordered an Iranian entity in September to focus on “surveillance” and prepare a plan to assassinate Trump before the Nov. 5 election.

Campaign officials confirmed that Trump was briefed by U.S. intelligence officials in September about Iranian assassination threats against him.

both President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Fox News in October that they viewed Iran’s threats to Trump as a “high-level” national security issue and that any attempt by the IRGC to actually harm Trump would be tantamount to kinetic military action. He said he would be welcomed. to “an act of war.”

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Late Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani attends Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s meeting with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran in 2016. Trump has been a target of the Revolutionary Guard since 2020, when he ordered the attack to oust Soleimani. (Iranian Supreme Leader Press Office/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Neither the White House nor the State Department immediately responded to Fox News’ request for comment on the nature of the threat from the Revolutionary Guard or how they plan to respond.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, is a military and counterintelligence agency that was designated a terrorist organization during Trump’s first term.

Trump has been a target of the IRGC since January 2020, when as president he ordered the drone strike that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.

News of the thwarted attack on Trump comes after Trump survived two previous, unrelated assassination attempts earlier this year while campaigning for a second term as president: the first in July At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, and then in September while playing golf at one of his Florida properties.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is shown here in the middle wearing a black turban. (Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran/West Asian News Agency/Reuters)

Threats from Iran, detailed in criminal files now publicly available, have led the Secret Service to beef up its security presence around the Trump campaign in recent months.

It’s unclear whether or how Trump plans to further tighten security at his residences in the months before his inauguration.

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U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC, on Thursday. The Justice Department is preparing charges against Iran for its efforts to influence the 2024 election cycle. (Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“There are few actors in the world who pose as serious a threat to the national security of the United States as Iran,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Friday.

“We will not oppose the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security,” he added.

US prosecutors file criminal complaint An anonymous official from the IRGC said: The entity had asked Farhad Shakeri to “focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating former President of the United States Donald J. Trump.”

The Justice Department said Shakeri, who remains at large and is believed to be living in Iran, “immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported in 2008 after serving 14 years in prison for robbery.” Trump called the applications “Victim-4.”

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“According to Shakeri, during his meeting with IRGC Official-I on or about October 7, 2024, IRGC Official-I instructed Shakeri to submit a plan to kill Victim-4 within seven days. IRGC Official-I -I stated during this time period that the IRGC would pause its plan to kill Victim-4 until after the U.S. Presidential election, because IRGC Official-I assessed that Victim-4 would lose the election, and subsequently, the Documents state that Victim-4 would be put on hold. “It would be easier to organize.”

Federal prosecutors also charged and arrested Carlisle Rivera, 49, of Brooklyn, New York, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, of Staten Island, New York, “for their alleged involvement” in a conspiracy to kill a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent. in New York.

Ministry of Justice He declined to comment on the threats or the investigation.