The U.S. State Division is providing as much as $20 million for data resulting in the arrest of a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot concentrating on former President Trump’s nationwide safety advisor, John Bolton.
Shahram Poursafi, is a uniformed member of the IRGC, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, and is believed to be engaged on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Drive (IRGC-QF) within the murder-for-hire plot, the State Division mentioned.
Poursafi allegedly conspired with “prison components” inside the U.S. to homicide Bolton in Washington, D.C., between October 2021 and April 2022 in change for $300,000, in response to the State Division.
The alleged assassination plot concentrating on Bolton passed off after he served as Trump’s Nationwide Safety Advisor between 2018 and 2019.
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L-R: Former U.S. Nationwide Safety Advisor John Bolton and IRGC member Shahram Poursafi. (Reuters; FBI)
Poursafi is alleged to have supplied “materials assist and sources” to facilitate the tried killing and advised the would-be murderer that he had a second assassination job for him after he murdered Bolton, the State Division mentioned. The potential murderer later turned a confidential supply for U.S. investigators.
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FILE: Former Nationwide Safety Advisor John Bolton speaks at a panel hosted by the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran – U.S. Consultant Workplace (NCRI-US) on the Willard InterContinental Lodge on August 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
The U.S. Division of Justice unsealed a prison grievance in opposition to Poursafi on Aug. 5, 2022. The U.S. Division of the Treasury designated Poursafi as a Specifically Designated World Terrorist on June 1, 2023. Which means that any of Poursafi’s property or pursuits in property topic to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. residents are forbidden from doing enterprise with him.
If convicted, Poursafi faces over a decade in jail and a half a million-dollar wonderful. He stays at giant overseas.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian walks on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations Common Meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2024. (Reuters/Caitlin Ochs)
The reward provide comes simply days after former President Trump was briefed about “actual and particular threats” from Iran to assassinate the Republican presidential candidate, his marketing campaign mentioned.
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Each incidents come as world leaders meet this week for the U.N. Common Meeting. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian mentioned Tuesday that Iran desires “to play an efficient and constructive position” in world affairs.
