AFP, Europa Press and Reuters
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 10, 2024, p. 17
Tehran. The Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, yesterday denied links to any alleged plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, after the US Department of Justice announced the day before the indictment of three people linked to the alleged plot that, according to its investigations, was ordered. by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Araghchi exposed that the accusation was a plot repulsive of Israel and the Iranian opposition outside the country to complicate things between the United States and Irandetailed the Al Jazeera media. The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baqaei, denounced the accusations without foundation and similar to those formulated against Iran in the past, and which ended up proving false, demonstrably.
The main defendant in this case is Farhad Shakeri, to whom Tehran, according to the US accusation, gave the order to kill a US citizen of Iranian origin in New York, as well as the then Republican presidential candidate. Shakeri is a fugitive, while his accomplices: Carlisle Rivera and Jonathon Loadholt, are detained.
The Iranian government also asked the magnate to change his policy of maximum pressure and severe sanctions that he applied during his first term against the Islamic republic. Trump must show that he is not following the erroneous policies of the pastMohamad Javad Zarif, Iranian Vice President of Strategic Affairs, told the press.
Bryan Lanza, an advisor to the magnate, assured in an interview with the BBC that the new government’s priority for Ukraine will be achieve peace and not recover lost territorywhich was later denied, at a time when Joe Biden’s administration is sending billions of dollars in military equipment to kyiv before the Republican takes office.
They deny strategy for Ukraine
Those responsible for Trump’s presidential transition team stated that Lanza was a campaign contractor and does not work for the president-elect, the spokesperson explained on condition of anonymity.
Officials told The Wall Street Journal that the current US administration faces logistical obstacles, in addition to raising concerns that the transfers will consume its already limited reserves to support Ukraine.