PublishedAugust 10, 2022, 6:04 PM
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United StatesIran had put a price on the head of a former senior American official
Revolutionary Guard Shahram Poursafi has been charged in absentia in the United States with trying to kill John Bolton, a former White House national security adviser.
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Iran is said to have offered $300,000 to have John Bolton removed, apparently to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, killed in January 2020 in an American strike.
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US justice revealed on Wednesday a plot led by a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to assassinate John Bolton, former national security adviser to the White House.
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The US Department of Justice said in a statement that Shahram Poursafi, alias Mehdi Rezayi, 45, was charged in absentia with offering to pay $300,000 to individuals in the United States to kill John Bolton, who was also United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Presumably, this assassination plan was intended to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, killed in January 2020 in an American strike.
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(AFP)
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