US and Israeli forces took out the Iranian official behind a plot to assassinate President Trump in the final days of the 2024 election campaign, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed. "The leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed," Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon. "Iran tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh." Hegseth did not identify the individual, but Israeli media named him as Rahman Mokadam, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' special operations division. According to federal prosecutors, the IRGC tasked Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September 2024 to "focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating" Trump.