‘Landed on US soil hoping to kill Trump’: IRGC operative convicted in US over murder-for-hire plot
An Iranian intelligence operative has been convicted by a US federal jury for terrorism and murder-for-hire offences linked to a foiled plot to assassinate American political figures, including President Donald Trump. Prosecutors said the man was sent to the United States by Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to organise political killings and other…