Trial Date Set for Three Men Charged in Iranian Assassination Plots Against Trump,
Dissident Farhad Shakeri, an 'asset of the Iranian regime,' allegedly plotted the assassination of Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad in addition to President Trump
Jon Levine
June 25, 2025
NEW YORK—The three men charged in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump and an Iranian dissident on U.S. soil now have a trial date: March 9, 2026, federal judge Lewis J. Liman ruled from his courtroom in New York City on Tuesday.
The judge set the date at a pre-trial hearing between the Department of Justice and lawyers for two of the accused, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt. Both defendants appeared shackled in the courtroom. A third accused man, the Afghan-born Farhad Shakeri, did not appear in court and is currently hiding out in Tehran.
Shakeri, an Afghan national, is accused of having plotted the assassination of President Donald Trump on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). He immigrated to the United States as a child before being deported in 2008 after serving a 14-year sentence for robbery and is—according to prosecutors—an "asset of the Iranian regime."
"According to Shakeri, in approximately mid-to-late September 2024, IRGC Official-I asked Shakeri to put aside his other efforts on behalf of the IRGC and focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump," a November 2024 criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York reads.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trial-date-set-for-three-men-charged-in-iranian-assassination-plots-against-trump-dissident/
