A 45-year-old Iranian revolutionary guard named Sahram Poursafi is reported to have hired a US “executioner” to assassinate Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. The “executioner” will be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the murder will be revenge for the murder of Iranian Qassem Soleimani, who died from American fire in 2020 in Baghdad.

Today, American justice uncovered a conspiracy allegedly aimed at the assassination of John Bolton, the former White House national security adviser.

According to the US Department of Justice, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps led the conspiracy. Sahram Poursafi in Mehdi Rezagi as he is also known, aged 45, who is said to have offered to pay $300,000 to individuals in the United States to kill Bolton. Bolton, in addition to being former US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, was also the US ambassador to the UN, and his assassination attempt is believed to be in retaliation for the January 2020 death of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by US fire.

An Iranian citizen “attempted to pay individuals in the US $300,000 to commit murder in Washington or Maryland,” the US Department of Justice said.

The plot was allegedly revealed to US authorities by the man who was supposed to kill Bolton, whose identity has not been released.

According to the statement, between October 2021 and April 2022, Sahram Poursafi contacted the “perpetrator” using encrypted messages, instructing him to find, photograph and then kill Bolton, who is considered “brutal” and a “hawk” on the Iranian issue.

The “executioner” was allegedly ordered to open a cryptocurrency account and obtain the business address of a former Trump adviser in order to carry out the assassination plan before the first anniversary of Soleimani’s death.

After the anniversary, Poursafi continued to convince the “executioner” to kill Bolton, offering him a million dollars if the operation was successful.

The FBI issued an arrest warrant for Pursafi.

The United States does not believe charges against an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member of an alleged plot to assassinate former White House official John Bolton should affect diplomatic relations with Iran over its nuclear program, the American said today.

Washington is seeking to revive a 2015 deal that saw Tehran suspend its nuclear program in exchange for easing US, EU and UN sanctions against it.

Source: APE-MPE, Reuters, AFP.