- Shahram Poursafi, 45, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is accused of attempting to pay individuals in America to kill former national security advisor John Bolton.
- Poursafi attempted to hire assassins as retaliation for the Trump administration’s assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
- Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was reportedly also a target of the Iranian assassination plot.
- Poursafi is likely living in Tehran. Read More