Another nothingburger has hit the Malacca strait Iranian man charged with conspiring to assasinate Donald Trump, as part of a vengeance plan for the killing of Qasem Soleimani

"The United States (U.S.) has charged an Iranian man on Nov. 7 for allegedly plotting to assassinate U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), 51-year-old Farhad Shakeri was instructed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Oct. 7 to provide a plan to assassinate Trump. The plot was part of the IRGC's mission to avenge the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who died in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020.

Shakeri, who immigrated to the U.S. as a child, was deported around 2008 after spending 14 years in prison for robbery.

He had worked together with Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, to surveil a female journ*list who had openly opposed the Iranian government.Rivera and Loadholt were offered US$100,000 (S$132,560) to locate and kill her, and had spent months monitoring the journ*list. They were arrested and charged on Nov. 8.