Iranian agents plotted to kill Trump, US Says in unsealed charges - West Hawaii Today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : In response, the official said, "We have already spent a lot of money," adding that "money's not an issue."The new allegation about a plan to kill Trump is the latest alarming development for U.S. security officials, who have been concerned since the summer that Iran appeared to be escalating plans for violence inside the United States, including against the president-elect, who has been Tehran's nemesis.
36% : Shakeri told the FBI that he was directed to provide a plan within seven days to kill Trump during a meeting with a Revolutionary Guard official on Oct. 7.
33% : An Iranian operative said he was told to put aside other efforts he was undertaking on behalf of the Revolutionary Guard and "focus on surveilling, and ultimately, assassinating" Trump, according to a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.
32% : In his first term as president, Trump abandoned a nuclear deal that required Iran to limit its nuclear capacity.
23% : The man prosecutors said was tasked with the plot to kill Trump and Alinejad was Farhad Shakeri, 51.
22% : Shakeri said the official told him that Trump would lose and that afterward "it would be easier to assassinate" him, according to the complaint.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.