Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed a report released Friday by the Justice Department that says it foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York said an unnamed official from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, to “focus on surveillance and eventually , on the assassination of the former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump”.

“Shakeri informed law enforcement that he was tasked, on October 7, 2024, with providing a plan to kill President-elect Donald J. Trump,” it added.

On Saturday, spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei “categorically rejected allegations that Iran was involved in assassination attempts on former and current US officials,” according to the foreign ministry.

IRANIAN ACTIVE CHARGED IN PLOT TO ASSIGN TRUMP, DOJ SAYS

Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, described a DOJ report that it had foiled an Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump as “completely baseless and rejected.” (ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Baghaei, who described the report as “completely baseless and dismissed”, said Iran had been accused of similar scenarios in the past, which had been “firmly denied and proven false”.

He said repeating these types of claims “is a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles to further complicate issues between the US and Iran”.

Baghaei concluded by saying that Iran “remains committed” to using “all legitimate and legal means” domestically and internationally to “restore the rights of the Iranian nation.”

An official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is accused of instructing an Iranian to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump. Protesters around the world have previously called for the IRGC to be placed on the EU’s terror list after blaming the group for repression in Iran and terrorism and war abroad. (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

INTELLIGENCE REPORT SAYS Iran will continue to try to kill Trump regardless of election outcome

Shakeri, who remains at large and is believed to be living in Iran, “immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported in or around 2008 after serving 14 years in prison for a robbery conviction,” according to DOJ.

Shakeri is also accused of framing two New York men, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, for surveilling and killing an Iranian-American — who “is an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime” – for $100,000.

The person, who identified himself as journalist Masih Alinejad, lives in America and has been targeted by the Iranian government, the DOJ report said.

WATCH: MASIH ALINEJAD: I DON’T DESERVE TO BE FOLLOWED BY MURDERERS

“We will not tolerate the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Shakeri, Rivera and Loadholt face charges of murder for wages, conspiracy to commit murder for wages and conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carry maximum sentences of 10 to 20 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Shakeri was also charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to violates the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and sanctions against the Government of Iran, each punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Fox News’ Greg Norman and David Spunt contributed to this report.