“Any assessment that Iran is assigning lethal operations to a ‘B team’ misses the utility of nonofficial actors," said Roule, currently affiliated with United Against Nuclear Iran.
Officials say they see no connection between that plot and the shooting of Trump in Pennsylvania by a local resident who had researched mass shootings and political assassinations.
In 2021, the Justice Department charged four alleged Iranian intelligence operatives with trying to kidnap Masih Alinejad.
“We have said many times that we have been tracking Iranian threats against former politicians,” she said this week.
Neither President Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris has commented on the alleged Iranian assassination plots.
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