{"id":8870,"date":"2022-09-16T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2022-09-16T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T11:44:01","slug":"justice-department-charges-alleged-iranian-operative-in-plot-to-assassinate-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8870","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department charges alleged Iranian operative in plot to assassinate Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Shahram Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, allegedly conspired between October of 2021 and April of this year to kill Bolton according to a criminal complaint released by the Department of Justice.Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was also targeted by the Iranians, a person close to Pompeo confirmed to POLITICO.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Poursafi, a member of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been charged with the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire and providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot. If convicted, Poursafi faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.<br>Beginning in October, Poursafi allegedly attempted to arrange the murder \u201clikely in retaliation\u201d for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/01\/02\/rockets-fired-baghdad-airport-4-killed-093075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;killing of top general Qassem Soleimani<\/a>&nbsp;by the U.S. in Jan. 2020, officials said.<br>Working on behalf of the IRGC, Poursafi attempted to pay people in the United States $300,000 in cryptocurrency to murder Bolton in Washington, D.C., or Maryland. Poursafi also offered $1 million for an \u201cadditional job.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/10\/justice-department-iranian-operative-assassinate-bolton-00050817\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/10\/justice-department-iranian-operative-assassinate-bolton-00050817<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shahram Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, allegedly conspired between October of 2021 and April of this year to kill Bolton according to a criminal complaint released by the Department of Justice. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was also targeted by the Iranians, a person close to Pompeo confirmed to POLITICO.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poursafi, a member of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been charged with the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire and providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot. If convicted, Poursafi faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in October, Poursafi allegedly attempted to arrange the murder \u201clikely in retaliation\u201d for the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. in Jan. 2020, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Working on behalf of the IRGC, Poursafi attempted to pay people in the United States $300,000 in cryptocurrency to murder Bolton in Washington, D.C., or Maryland. Poursafi also offered $1 million for an \u201cadditional job.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[174,156,370],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-assassination","tag-iran","tag-john-bolton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}