The Department of Justice on Friday revealed that Iran had instructed one of its agents in charge of a New York City-based criminal network to stalk and assassinate now-President elect Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential campaign's final weeks. The agent was told that “money’s not an issue."

An unnamed official in Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tasked Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating” Trump, according to a bombshell criminal complaint unsealed by Manhattan federal prosecutors Friday.

The 26-page document details how Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national who spent 14 years in New York State prisons, conspired with his former prison buddies at the behest of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Shakeri was deported in 2008 after completing that prison sentence for burglary, and currently lives in Tehran. Two of his co-conspirators, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, were charged in the complaint and made their first appearances Thursday.

The Iranian plot to kill Trump is just one more example of not how much the world's bad guys fear the president-elect; it's also a clear sign that the very same bad guys scoffed at President Joe Biden and his paper-tiger administration for four long years.

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Like clockwork, the Islamist regime has already denied its involvement in the plan to kill Trump.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Saturday "categorically dismissed allegations that Iran was involved in attempts to assassinate former and current US officials," according to the foreign ministry. 

Baghaei said the DOJ report was"completely baseless and rejected," and that Iran has been accused of similar scenarios in the past that have been "firmly denied and proven false." He failed to provide a single example of his claim.

Baghaei also said repeating such claims "is a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles, aimed at further complicating the issues between the US and Iran." 

He concluded by absurdly claiming that Iran "remains committed" to using "all legitimate and legal means" at domestic and international levels to "restore the rights of the Iranian nation."

Laughable nonsense, of course, but here's the thing. All bluster aside, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and even China will behave a bit differently during the second Trump administration than they behaved throughout the disastrous Biden-Harris administration. 

The Bottom Line

To reiterate, of course Iran flatly denied the allegations. The mad mullahs in Tehran know full well that their agents hatched the plot. The US Justice Department knows full well that Iran hatched the plot. And the mullahs know full well that the DOJ caught the rogue nation red-handed.

As I suggested earlier, the assassination plot, along with Iran's quick denial, is just one more example that the world's bad guys are nervous -- if not full-blown terrified -- that a new sheriff is on his way back to town. They also know that when that sheriff issues a warning, they better take heed. If not, the sheriff will indeed bring down the hammer — bigly.