Pakistani man says Iran forced him into plot to kill Trump, media say

March 4, 2026, 10:33 p.m. ET

President Donald Trump attends a roundtable on the Ratepayer Protection Pledge in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 4, 2026.

A Pakistani man accused of planning to kill President Donald Trump told jurors on Wednesday that he did not willingly work with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to devise the plot, media said.

The Justice Department accused Asif Merchant of trying to recruit people in the United States in the plan targeting Trump and other U.S. politicians in retaliation for Washington’s killing of the Corps’ top commander, Qassem Soleimani.

The Corps has a central role in Iran, with its combination of military and economic power and an intelligence network.

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