The Federal Bureau of Investigation thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump before he was re-elected as president, the Justice Department said in a case unsealed Friday that underscores the barrage of security threats Trump faces even before he takes office.

Shakeri told the FBI he didn’t plan to propose a plan to murder Trump within the seven days the official had requested, according to the complaint. The plot, with the charges unsealed just days after Trump’s defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris ...

The Department of Justice unsealed criminal charges in a thwarted plot by Iran to kill Donald Trump. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard spoke to a contact in September about plans to conduct surveillance on the former president and kill him before