A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was charged by the U.S. in a plot to murder former national security adviser John Bolton.
The alleged plan by Shahram Poursafi was likely to avenge the January 2020 death of Iran’s Qasem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC’s elite Quds force, according to a statement Wednesday by the Justice Department. Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in January 2020.
The U.S. alleges Poursafi tried to pay $300,000 to have Bolton murdered.
