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2026年3月5日 美国东部时间凌晨3:18 更新于40分钟前
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法庭素描：2024年9月16日，在美国纽约法庭上，一名涉嫌与伊朗有关联的巴基斯坦男子阿西夫·默chant（Asif Merchant）因涉嫌参与一起未遂刺杀美国政客或政府官员的阴谋而出庭受审。路透社/简·罗森伯格 [获取授权，新标签页打开]
3月4日（路透社）- 一名被控策划刺杀总统唐纳德·特朗普的巴基斯坦男子周三在法庭上告诉陪审员，他并非自愿与伊朗精英伊斯兰革命卫队合作策划该阴谋，媒体报道称。
美国司法部指控阿西夫·默chant试图在美国招募人员实施针对特朗普和其他美国政客的计划，以报复华盛顿方面杀害伊斯兰革命卫队最高指挥官卡西姆·苏莱曼尼。
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伊斯兰革命卫队在伊朗发挥着核心作用，拥有军事和经济力量以及情报网络。
《纽约时报》援引默chant的话称：“我并非心甘情愿地做这件事”，他在因恐怖主义和雇佣谋杀指控受审时表示，参与计划是为了保护他在德黑兰的家人。
检察官驳斥了默chant的说法，称其“缺乏真实胁迫或强迫的证据支持”，周二致该案法官的信件中如此表示（日期为2024年）。
据该报报道，默chant称他从未被命令刺杀特定人物，但在伊朗首都的交谈中，他的伊朗 handlers（联络人）提到了三个人。
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除特朗普外，这三人还包括当时的总统乔·拜登；未能获得2024年共和党总统候选人提名的尼基·黑利。
默chant的律师未立即回应置评请求。白宫也未立即置评。
审判上周开始，就在特朗普下令与以色列对伊朗发动打击、杀死伊朗最高领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊及该国高级官员数天之后。
特朗普在周日接受美国广播公司新闻采访时谈及美以联合行动杀死哈梅内伊，称“我先下手为强”，并援引了所谓的伊朗阴谋作为例证。
德黑兰否认了针对特朗普和其他美国官员的指控。
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Pakistani man says Iran forced him into plot to kill Trump, media say
By Reuters
March 5, 2026 3:18 AM UTC Updated 40 mins ago
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Asif Merchant, a Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran, appears on charges in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S. politician or government officials, in a courtroom in New York, U.S., September 16, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]
March 4 (Reuters) – 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.
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The Corps has a central role in Iran, with its combination of military and economic power and an intelligence network.
“I was not wanting to do this so willingly,” the New York Times quoted Merchant as telling a court during his trial for terrorism and murder-for-hire charges, adding that he participated to protect his family in Tehran.
Prosecutors rejected Merchant’s claim, citing a “lack of evidentiary support for a true duress or coercion,” according to a letter sent on Tuesday to the judge in the case dating from 2024.
According to the newspaper, Merchant said he had never been ordered to kill a specific person but that his Iranian handler named three people in the course of conversations in the Iranian capital.
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In addition to Trump, these were Joe Biden, the president at the time; Nikki Haley, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
Lawyers for Merchant did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The White House did not immediately comment.
The trial started last week, days before Trump ordered strikes on Iran carried out with Israel that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and top officials in the Middle Eastern nation.
Trump cited an alleged Iranian plot when he spoke to ABC News on Sunday about a joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Khamenei, saying, “I got him before he got me.”
Tehran has denied accusations that it targeted Trump and other U.S. officials.
Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Donna Bryson and Clarence Fernandez
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