Iran has described US justice allegations as “ridiculous” regarding a IRGC’s plot to assassinate former White House national security adviser John Bolton.
An Iranian man, identified as Shahram Poursafi, has been charged in absentia with offering to pay a person in the United States $300,000 to kill John Bolton, the US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
According to the Justice Department, the alleged plan to avenge the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in an attack ordered by then-President Donald Trump in Iraq in January 2020, was revealed by the person who should have killed Bolton.
“US judicial authorities have made accusations without providing any valid evidence,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kanani said in a statement.
The spokesperson criticized the “baseless allegations”, saying that “to avoid responding to various terrorist crimes in which the US government was directly involved, for example the cowardly killing of Soleimani.”
“The Islamic Republic strongly warns against any action aimed at attacking Iranian citizens with absurd accusations,” Kanani said.
According to the United States Department of Justice, between October 2021 and April 2022, Poursafi contacted a person who was supposed to kill Bolton, but the contact was actually an FBI informant.
The Iranian suspect would pressure him to carry out the assassination before the second anniversary of the death of Soleimani, who was killed in a drone attack in Baghdad on January 3, 2020.
The powerful Iranian general was the architect of the country’s security strategy in the Middle East for years. He was the commander of the Quds Force, the unit responsible for the Revolutionary Guard’s overseas operations.
Current White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned on Wednesday that Tehran is at risk of “serious consequences” if there is an attack on US government officials.
The US accusations came while examining a compromise offered by the European Union to try to save Iran’s 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program, recommended by John Bolton and stalled since he left in 2018.
source: Noticias
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