Fortunately, the assassins Merchant tried to hire were undercover FBI agents,
Now we know we're going forward. We're doing this, ... Yes, absolutely."
Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive. I will do it personally if no one else does... I want her to suffer a slow agonising death,
A foreign-directed plot to kill a public official, or any US citizen, is a threat to our national security and will be met with the full might and resources of the FBI,
Merchant told the source that the opportunity he had for him was not one-time and would be ongoing - making a ‘finger-gun’ motion with his hand indicating it was regarding a killing,
The Justice Department will spare no resource to disrupt and hold accountable those who would seek to carry out Iran’s lethal plotting against American citizens and will not tolerate attempts by an authoritarian regime to target American public officials and endanger America’s national security.”
For years, the justice department has been working aggressively to counter Iran’s brazen and unrelenting efforts to retaliate against American public officials for the killing of Iranian General Soleimani,
This dangerous murder-for-hire plot exposed in today’s charges allegedly was orchestrated by a Pakistani national with close ties to Iran and is straight out of the Iranian playbook,
I don’t think that we have seen the end of this,
Working on behalf of others overseas, Merchant planned the murder of U.S. government officials on American soil,
We have not received any reports on this matter from the US government. However, it is evident that the modus operandi in question contradicts the Iranian government’s policy of legally prosecuting the murderer of General Soleimani,
After spending time in Iran, Merchant flew from Pakistan to the U.S. to recruit hit men to carry out his scheme,