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A Pakistani man with alleged close ties to Iran has been charged in connection with what FBI Director Christopher Wray says is an assassination plot “straight out of the Iranian playbook.” Asif Merchant, 46, has been charged with “murder-for-hire as part of a scheme to assassinate a politician or US government officials on US soil,” the US Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York said in a news release Tuesday.Federal prosecutors did not disclose the alleged target or targets, but sources tell CNN that the FBI believes Donald Trump was among them. There is not believed to be any …

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