The Department of Justice said Wednesday that it had charged a 45-year-old Iranian national who's a member of ’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for plotting to murder former National Security Advisor John Bolton. The DOJ said that Shahram Poursafi, who also goes by the name Mehdi Rezayi, attempted to pay individuals in the United States $300,000 to carry out the murder in Washington, D.C. or . The plot was likely in retaliation for the January 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force, a division of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.
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