On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice charged an Iranian military operative with plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton. Bolton, who served as Trump's third national security advisor for 17 months before resigning, was the main architect of the administration's "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran. According to court documents, 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi of Tehran, Iran attempted to arrange the killing of Bolton in retaliation for the January 2020 U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top commander, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who led a special forces unit of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard. Soleimani had been a key figure in Iranian and Middle East politics and his death exacerbated tension between Iran and the United States Poursafi, a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, attempted to pay individuals in the United States in October 2021 a reward of $300,000 to carry out the plot in e
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The White House insists that an Iranian’s alleged attempt to kill former US National Security Adviser John Bolton was a tit-for-tat move for the assassination. 12.08.2022, Sputnik International