India, March 5 -- A businessman from Pakistan, currently on trial for attempted terrorism in the US has reportedly testified that he was recruited by a Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) handler of Iran with a hit job in 2024 - to kill now President Donald Trump, then President Joe Biden and ex-UN ambassador Nikki Haley.

The Revolutionary Guard, which gained prominence under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was recently killed in the US-Israeli strikes, is deemed a "foreign terrorist organisation" by Washington.

The testimony by Asif Merchant, a 47-year-old Pakistani native, comes at a time when the US and Iran are engaged in a big global conflict, with strikes being reported in Iran, Israel and several other Middle Eastern countries a...