An Iranian operative has been charged in a plot to murder former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton in presumed retaliation for a US airstrike that killed the country's most powerful general, offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to "eliminate" him, the Justice Department says.Shahram Poursafi, identified yesterday (this morning AEST) by US officials as a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, is currently wanted by the FBI on charges related to the alleged murder-for-hire plot.Prosecutors say the scheme started more than a year after Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard force and an architect of Tehran's proxy wars in the Middle East, was killed in a targeted airstrike at Baghdad's international airport in January 2020.
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