American justice on Wednesday revealed a plot by a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to kill John Bolton, the former White House national security adviser, AFP reports.

Shahram Poursafi, 45, aka Mehdi Rezaei, is charged in absentia with offering to pay $300,000 to people in the United States to kill John Bolton, who was also the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, likely to avenge the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, killed in January 2020 during a US attack.

The plot was revealed to authorities by Bolton’s would-be assassin, whose identity has not been released.

According to the statement, between October 2021 and April 2022, Shahram Poursafi contacted this confidential source via encrypted message instructing him to locate, photograph and then kill Bolton.

He ordered him to open a cryptocurrency account and then gave him the address of a former adviser to Donald Trump before urging him to implement the plan by the first anniversary of Soleimani’s death.

A powerful Iranian general, the architect of Iran’s strategy in the Middle East, headed the Qods Force, the unit responsible for foreign operations within the Revolutionary Guard. He died on January 3, 2020 as a result of a drone strike in Baghdad.

After the anniversary, Shahram Poursafi continued to pressure the confidential source to kill Bolton, promising him another million dollar contract if the first operation was successful.

Poursafi was wanted by the FBI with several photos, including two of him in a Revolutionary Guards uniform.

“In their exchange of messages, the confidential source repeatedly referred to Poursafi’s connection with the Qods forces. Pursafi never denied this,” the American judge said.

If arrested, which is unlikely because he is reportedly in Iran, Shahram Poursafi faces up to 25 years in prison in the United States.