The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that the FBI had thwarted an Iranian attempt to kill US President-elect Donald Trump, before election week, according to what the Associated Press reported.

The department announced criminal charges on Friday, in a case in Manhattan, alleging that an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official directed a person last September to develop a plan to monitor and kill Trump.

The case papers said that the Iranian official directed the man, Farhad Shakeri, that if he could not develop a plan within the time frame he asked of him, then he would have to stop the plan until after the American elections, because he believed that Trump would lose, and then he would be assassinated. Easier.

Shakeri told the FBI that he did not intend to submit a plan to kill Trump within the 7-day period requested by the Iranian official.

The Justice Department unveiled the plan, days after Trump defeated his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, in what federal officials describe as “continued efforts by Iran to target US government officials, including Trump, on US soil.”

According to the case papers, Shakeri was assigned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to carry out assassinations against Israeli and American citizens inside the United States, but Revolutionary Guard officials asked him in September to focus only on Trump, and gave him 7 days to develop a plan.

CNN indicated that the Department of Justice brought charges against two other people, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, who were arrested in New York and charged with helping the Iranian government monitor an American citizen of Iranian origin