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The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been charged with the use of interstate commerce facilities « in the commission of murder-for-hire and with providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot. »
The target? President Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton.
In a statement after the DOJ announced the case against Shahram Poursafi, who allegedly acted in retaliation for the U.S. strike in January 2020 that killed Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, Bolton issued a statement: « While much cannot be said publicly right now, one point is indisputable: Iran’s rulers are liars, terrorists, and enemies of the United States. »
« The Justice Department has the solemn duty to defend our citizens from hostile governments who seek to hurt or kill them, » Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in a prepared statement. « This is not the first time we have uncovered Iranian plots to exact revenge against individuals on U.S. soil and we will work tirelessly to expose and disrupt every one of these efforts.
