Who is Farhad Shakeri? Afghan mastermind of Iran’s plot to kill President-elect Trump was deported from US in 2008
Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan man accused of orchestrating a failed murder-for-hire plan against Donald Trump, was deported from the United States after serving time in prison. Tehran planned the plot against Trump as payback for Iranian major general and commander of the Quds Force Qasem Soleimani’s death.(REUTERS) The 51-year-old was released from prison in 2008 after serving 14 years for robbery. According to the Department of Justice, the alleged terrorist joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and became an asset after being deported. Shakeri has been accused of participating in an extensive assassination conspiracy on behalf of Tehran alongside two New Yorkers, Jonathan Loadholt, 36, of Staten Island, and Carlisle Rivera, 49, of Brooklyn, also known as Pop. They are charged with trying to kill Trump along with two Jewish businesspeople in the United States and Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad. However, the co-conspirators have not been indicted. The DOJ contends that while Rivera and Loadholt have been taken into custody, Shakeri is still free in Iran. Who is Farhad Shakeri? Shakeri arrived in the …