Killing Bolton is revenge for Soleimani’s death
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Bolton rejected the Iran proposal in 2015.
- Tehran decided to kill officials who were involved in the Soleimani drone strike.
- The US Department decided to take strict action against Iran.
John Bolton was the ex-White House official and National security advisor of former President of US Donald Trump. He was also the ambassador to the United Nations from 2005-2006.
He was saved by the US Justice Department on Wednesday, the department charged one of the Revolutionary Guard Corps from Iran as was planning to kill John Bolton.
The US Justice Department has a report that Shahram Poursafi, who is also called as Mehdi Razayi of Tehran, Iran, was planning to assassinate John Bolton recently for the death of Qassen Soleimani, who was the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran.
The Department of Justice also said, Poursafi was also a member of Iran’s Islamic Guard Crops and he was asked to plot the murder twice, one is to assassinate Bolton and the other is not revealed yet.
To kill Bolton he was given $250,000 and finally agreed to $300,000 and to kill others he agreed to take $1 million. The other person after Bolton is known to the department but they said it is confidential.
In 2015, Iran’s government put a proposal to the US Department on Iran’s nuclear program when Donald Trump in ruling and Bolton was his security advisor but John Bolton who is a great critic of Iran’s government opposed the proposal of the nuclear program and in the same, the Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran chief Soleimani was targeted by the US drone strike.
Soleimani was the head of the Revolutionary crops of Iran and he had a network across the Gulf region, He was targeted and killed in a US drone strike in 2020, then Tehran decided to take revenge on Officials who are serving at that time, said Poursafi in instigation.
Current White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said, “should Iranians attack the officers who are serving the US and who are still serving, this is not right. Iran will face severe consequences to this”.
“This is very often we are seeing a such case that Iran is attacking our US officials. We have seen many times that Iranians planned to kill other citizens, now we will work hard to keep a check on such attempts,” said National Security division assistant attorney general Matthew Olsen.
Iran had refused the allegations late on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokesperson said “Iran will face consequences very strongly against such plans made even after”.
Bolton was not present when Suleimani was killed in a drone strike, He was no longer a member of the National Advisory, but the reason is he refused and opposed the agreement with the Iran government about the nuclear weapon.
JOHN BOLTON TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:
Bolton thanked the US department for their work and they caught the accused before any killings happened, He also thanked them for tracking that Iranian and charging him.
He said after he completed his term as a White House official in 2019 Trump administration bittu provided any security but today Biden administration did that. “Much cannot be said, but one thing, have tho clear here that Iran rulers are liars, terrorists and enemies of the United States,” said Bolton.
FBI special agent Randi Beck was taking charge of Poursafi, in the process, FBI noticed that the second person who was going to be killed was living in Texas.
