Posted on 08/10/2022 9:23:12 AM PDT by KingofZion
The Justice Department has charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, accusing the man of attempting to pay individuals $300,000 to kill Bolton in D.C. or Maryland.
The suspect, Shahram Poursafi, 45, remains at large abroad, the Justice Department said. If found and convicted, he would face up to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 for the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, and up to 15 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 for providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot.
Federal officials said the assassination of Bolton would have been retaliation for the U.S. military’s killing in January 2020 of Qasem Soleimani, a top commander of the Revolutionary Guard, which is a branch of Iran’s military. Soleimani was killed in a drone strike in Baghdad.
*** Bolton, who did not want the sanctions lifted, was a main architect of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign of escalating economic sanctions and threats of retaliation for Iran’s alleged support of terrorism. The idea was to cripple Iran’s economy to the point that its leaders felt they must bargain away any nuclear ambitions and missile technology.
“While much cannot be said publicly right now, one point is indisputable: Iran’s rulers are liars, terrorists, and enemies of the United States,” Bolton said in a statement about the indictment. “Their radical, anti-American objectives are unchanged; their commitments are worthless; and their global threat is growing.”
*** MORE
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They are setting the stage to kill Trump and blame the Iranians.
Yep................
All they need to do is wear FBI T-Shirts and vests, go to the front door, and claim they have a warrant but can’t show it.
Bolton????
THAT’S how much they ‘get’ American politics
THAT’S how much they ‘get’ American politics
No kidding. I wonder if the guy has a GoFundMe page.
Minority Report level sh*t cause last I checked it ascribed as a plot and BoltonIdiot still breathing? Better yet, give the plotter the same sentence as Nicholas Roske who plotted to kill Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, k?
/s
Bolton, eh? Tempting to say “well, let them have their revenge” and we’d be rid of a traitor. Win-win.
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