“A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is accused of plotting to kill a former National Security Advisor. The accused worked on behalf of the Revolutionary Guards to hire people to carry out the murder, presumably in retaliation for the January 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani,” said a press release on the Justice Ministry’s website. statements were included.
Based on court documents, it was reported that since October 2021, 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi, working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, negotiated with some individuals around the capital Washington to kill John Bolton, in retaliation for the death of Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani. .
Prosecutors’ indictment alleged that the Iranian, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, offered $300,000 to hire someone to kill Bolton, a conservative foreign policy expert and ultra-conservative on Iran, in Washington or Maryland.
In a statement on the department’s page, FBI Deputy Director Larissa L. Knapp said, “Iran has a history of assassinating individuals in the United States that it sees as a threat, but the US Government has a longer history of holding those who threaten the safety of our citizens to account.” statement was included.
Ministry officials shared the information that Poursafi, who was named in the criminal complaint filed in the federal court in Washington, is currently outside the United States and will be tried for trying to provide financial support to an international murder plan if he is caught.
Bolton, who opposed the nuclear agreement signed with Iran during the 44th President of the USA, Barack Obama, resigned from his position as Trump’s national security adviser within 17 months, and later described the events he witnessed during his tenure in a book.
According to the semi-official Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA), on April 21, 2022, IRGC Navy Chief Tengsiri said that Washington had offered Tehran to lift sanctions and stop avenging Qassem Soleimani killed in the US attack in return for certain concessions. He said his plans for revenge were certain.
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