Iran's Foreign Ministry denies any involvement in assassination plot on President-elect Trump

Iran's Foreign Ministry denies any involvement in an assassination plot against President-elect Donald Trump, following a report released by the Department of Justice.

On Saturday, a spokesperson for the ministry, Esmaeil Baghaei, described the report as "completely baseless and rejected," according to Fox News.

He added that the whole thing was a conspiracy orchestrated by "Zionist and anti-Iranian circles."

On Friday, the DOJ filed criminal charges against Iranian officials who were allegedly involved in a plot to murder Trump.

According to a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard ordered his contact, Farhad Shakeri, in September to hatch a plan to kill Trump.

The complaint said if Shakeri wasn't able to create such a plan, the operation would be paused until after the presidential election. According to the complaint, the unnamed official thought Trump would lose and it would be easier to carry out a plot to kill him.

Baghaei stated that Iran "remains committed" to using "all legitimate and legal means" at domestic and international levels in order to "restore the rights of the Iranian nation."