Iranian charged in plot to murder former National Security Advisor John Bolton

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Iranian charged in plot to murder former National Security Advisor John Bolton
By J.D. Simkins
Aug 10, 02:53 PM
In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton was reportedly the target of a murder-for-hire plot hatched by an Iranian national. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is facing charges in what the Justice Department is calling a “murder for hire” plot that targeted former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Iranian national Shahram Poursafi, 45, who also goes by Mehdi Rezayi, allegedly plotted the murder-for-hire in response to the United States’ January 2020 assassination of Qassim Soleimani, commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force. Poursafi offered to pay $300,000 to anyone who would carry out the assassination of Bolton in or around Washington, according to a DoJ release.

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