The Department of Justice has filed legal documents with a New York court. According to the documents, a Revolutionary Guard official in Iran last September instructed a contact to devise a plan to surveil and ultimately kill Trump.
If the contact, who is identified as Farjad Shaken, did not succeed in making a plan, he would allegedly put the plans on hold until after the election. It was because Iran thought Trump would lose and that it would be easier to attack him then.
Shaken, who is charged in the case, has told the FBI that he had no intention of making such a plan within the one-week deadline he had been given.
The plan is part of what the FBI says are ongoing attempts by Iran to carry out assassinations of US officials, including Trump, in the US.