The United States has charged a Pakistani man, who it alleges has ties to Iran, with plotting to carry out political assassinations.
Asif Merchant travelled to New York in June seeking to hire a hitman to kill a politician or a US government official in revenge for the 2020 assassination of a senior Iranian military commander, according to a statement issued by the US Justice Department on Wednesday.
Merchant, who prosecutors allege spent time in Iran before travelling to the US from Pakistan, was charged with murder for hire in federal court in New York’s Brooklyn borough.
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