WASHINGTON — The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect <a href="/topics/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a> before this week’s presidential election.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed a contact this past September to put together a plan to surveil and ultimately kill <a href="/topics/donald-trump/">Trump</a>.

The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week’s presidential election.{ai:summary}<p>The Justice Department has revealed criminal charges related to an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the presidential election. A complaint filed in Manhattan details instructions from an official in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to surveil and kill Trump. #foreignaffairs</p>

FBI foils Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

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