New Delhi, March 7 -- A federal jury in the US on Friday, March 6, convicted a Pakistani man of planning to kill President Donald Trump and other prominent American politicians at the behest of Iran.

The convict, Asif Merchant, also known as "Asif Raza Merchant," was accused of trying to recruit people in the US in a plan targeting Trump and others. According to the Department of Justice, Merchant's targets also included the then-President Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, who was running against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.

Prosecutors said that the killings were in retaliation for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Soleimani was killed on Januar...