Live updates: Trump says no deal with Iran until ‘unconditional surrender’
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Key Points:
- A federal grand jury convicted Asif Merchant, a Pakistani operative linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for plotting to assassinate US officials including President Donald Trump in a foiled 2024 scheme; he faces life in prison.
- The assassination plot was uncovered after Merchant sought hit men through an acquaintance who alerted law enforcement, leading to his arrest in July 2024 following undercover meetings.
- The conviction occurs amid escalating US-Israeli military strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks in the Middle East, including missile and drone strikes targeting Iranian Kurdish groups in Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Iran has threatened European countries supporting attacks against it, declaring them “legitimate targets,” while the US and Israel continue to conduct airstrikes on Iranian and allied
