Tehran on Wednesday dismissed US accusations against an Iranian man of plotting to kill John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, as baseless, Reuters reported.
“Iran strongly warns against any action against Iranian citizens on the pretext of these ridiculous and baseless accusations,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tehran, Nasser Kanaani, according to Iranian media.
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.
Source: Hot News RO
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