This is a conclusion that comes from many sources, high and low. From career criminal to Iranian agent named Farhad Shakeri.An Afghan expat who spent his teenage and young adult years in the United States and committed a brutal armed robbery and kidnapping on Long Island when he was 20 has been accused of leading a murder investigation team made up of ex-convicts to murder opponents. To the Iranian regime. According to A federal complaint was filed on November 8. Shakeri served 14 years in a New York prison, was deported from the United States in 2008 on criminal alien charges, wandered the Middle East, Turkey and South Asia in a failed heroin trafficking attempt, and was arrested in Tehran. Used as an IRGC asset. Several months ago, Shakeri “was tasked by the regime with directing a criminal sympathizer network to further the Iranian assassination plot, including that of President-elect Donald Trump,” according to the complaint.
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