Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iranhave been indicted by theUS Department of Justicefor alleged planning ex Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton
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Mr. Poursafi, from Tehran, is still on the run abroad, DOJ said. According to the DOJ, if he is found and subsequently convicted, he could spend 10 years in prison and be fined up to $250,000 for using an "interstate commerce facility on a commission for murder for hire." may face.
He could also be sentenced to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for "providing and attempting to provide material support to a cross-border murder plot." There is a nature.
Officials said the assassination plot was in retaliation for the January 2020 killing of Revolutionary Guard Commander Qassem Soleimani in a US airstrike in Baghdad.
This corps is a branch of the Iranian military.
Mr. Bolton served as National Security Advisor to the Trump administration for 17 months. He left the White House in 2019 after a dispute with then-President Donald Trump over whether sanctions against Iran should be lifted as a means of negotiation, the Washington Post reported . rice field.
Mr Bolton did not think he should lift the sanctions. He was the man behind the regime's efforts to impose economic sanctions and escalate the threat of retaliation for Iran's alleged support of terrorists. According to
, his aim was to bring Iran's economy to its knees to the point that Iran's leaders felt compelled to negotiate a nuclear approach and missile technology. It was an embarrassment. } The Post
In a statement responding to the conspiracy Mr Bolton said: Rulers are liars, terrorists, and enemies of the United States.
"Their radical and anti-American aims remain unchanged. Their commitments are worthless. And their global threat grows," he added.
Mr. Bolton, 73, was a strong supporter of the Iraq War that began in 2003, and George W. served as Ambassador to the United Nations.
After leaving the Bush administration, Mr. Bolton joined a conservative think tank in Washington, DC. He also worked privately in his equity firm and appeared as a contributor on Fox News.
He came under fire last month when he said the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol was not a coup, adding that he would know if it was because he had planned a coup in the past.
"As someone who helped plan a coup, not here, but elsewhere, it takes a lot of work, but that's not what [President Donald Trump] did." Mr Bolton said. CNN.
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Since October last year, Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, according to the DOJ,, according to court documents, said Bolton's Tried to set the kill.
"This is not the first time we have uncovered an Iranian conspiracy aimed at retaliation against individuals in the United States, and we will continue to work tirelessly to expose and thwart all of these efforts." Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said. In a statement, the US State Department's National Security Agency
Larissa Knapp, Deputy Director of the FBI's National Security Agency, said: , but the U.S. government has a long history of holding those who endanger the safety of its citizens to account.
On Oct. 22 last year, Mr. Pursafi asked a US resident he met online to take a picture of Mr. Bolton, according to court documents. He claimed the photos were for a book he was working on.
A U.S. resident told Mr. Puru Safi from $5,000 to another person he would take pictures for $10,000. said that he could introduce According to the DOJ, Mr. Pursafi first contacted the other individual on his Nov. 9 request to hire someone to "get rid of" Mr. Bolton.
Mr. Poursafi took a screenshot of a map of Mr. Bolton's office. One screenshot showed Bolton "10,162 km away." This is the "approximate distance between Washington, D.C. and Tehran, Iran."DOJ said.
The DOJ did not specify how Poursafi carried out the murder, but added that his "group" should confirm Bolton's death on video.
On January 3 of this year, Mr. Pusafi told his contacts that he was under pressure from "his people" to end the assassination, saying, "The anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's death." DOJ said in a press release.
DOJ announced on January 18 that Mr. A contact person said he was able to provide "details about the former national security adviser's schedule that were not publicly available."
Mr Poursafi also told his contacts that there was a second target after Mr Bolton's assassination was completed.
DOJ told contacts Poursafi had completed monitoring his second target, adding that the information was collected from the United States and not "through Google."
This indicated that "someone working on behalf of the 'Revolutionary Guard' had already conducted pre-operation surveillance against his second target within the United States." There are, he said the DOJ.
Mr Poursafi told his contact on February 1 that if the work is not completed within two weeks, the work will be removed from the contact.
He told his contact, "Someone searched the area around the former National Security Advisor's house and believed there were no security forces, so [the contact] said, 'Do the job.' "I should be able to finish it," he said. According to DOJ.
On March 10, Mr. Poursafi told his contacts that there was another assassination mission in the United States for them, but that Mr. Bolton should be kept "in the back of his mind." He said.
More to come.