U.S. received Iran's written assurance it was not actively trying to assassinate Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : One operative working for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told federal investigators that he was tasked in September with "surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating" Trump, according to court records unsealed last week.
35% : Prosecutors said Farhad Shakeri, who is believed to be residing in Iran, told investigators in a phone interview that unnamed IRGC officials pushed him to plan an attack against Trump to take place in October.
30% : The Wall Street Journal first reported Iran's message to the U.S.The Justice Department is currently prosecuting at least two individuals alleged to have been part of murder-for-hire plots to kill Trump while he was still a candidate.
28% : If the plan could not come together in time, the Iranian officials directed Shakeri to delay the plot until after the election because the official "assessed that [Trump] would lose the election," the charging documents said.
24% : "In response to inquiries suggesting that "Iran told U.S. it wouldn't try to kill Trump", the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran said it would not comment on official messages between two countries.
21% : "Trump has raised the ire of Iranians for a few reasons.

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