IRGC operative lands on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list over alleged plot to kill former Trump advisor
The FBI on Tuesday placed a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on its Most Wanted Terrorists list for allegedly soliciting the murders of two former U.S.
Key points
- The assassination plot was believed to have been initiated in retaliation for the January 2020 killing of IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani, who led a unit of the Qods Force, one of the IRGC's five divisions responsible for developing and carrying out lethal plotting operations.
- BOLTON CALLS IRAN ASSASSINATION PLOT AN 'ACT OF WAR,' CALLS ON BIDEN ADMIN TO 'TERMINATE' NUCLEAR TALKS The plot ultimately fell through as the contact was a confidential human source working with the FBI, often considered civilian informants.
- "The FBI will not stand for the IRGC’s brazen attempts to silence, harm or murder activists, dissidents, journalists, public officials or anyone else it deems a threat," Gregory Heeb of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division said.
US OFFERS $20M FOR IRANIAN IN PLOT TARGETING TRUMP’S EX-NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JOHN BOLTON Separately, the FBI released wanted posters seeking information on three alleged IRGC officials from the same Qods Force unit.
Court documents detail an alleged plot targeting former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Additional details
- Shahram Poursafi is accused of hiring individuals to kill the officials between October 2021 and April 2022, according to the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
- A special agent in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office said the agency will continue to disrupt lethal plots and bring IRGC members to justice for threatening U.S.
- IRAN HAS 'SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED' EFFORTS TO TARGET AMERICANS ABROAD, US INTELLIGENCE MEMO WARNS According to a 2022 Justice Department complaint announcing the charges against Poursafi, Poursafi initially plotted the assassination by asking a U.S.
- He was also accused of supplying resources or assistance for an international murder plot, according to a Justice Department complaint.
- contact up to $300,000 to "eliminate" the former national security advisor.
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