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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was further a target in a claimed Iranian assassination plot targeting former national security adviser John Bolton, according to a report.<\/p>\n
\nA source close to Pompeo explained to Yahoo News that the Justice Department reached out to give him advance notice that he was the different high-ranking Trump official mentioned in charges against Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, unsealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is the one most at risk because of his frequent travel and because of his potential run in 2024,\u201d the source explained to the news outlet.<\/p>\n
The Justice Department declined to comment, according to the report. If true, Pompeo is mentioned twice in the affidavit.<\/p>\n
“On or about the same day, POURSAFI asked if the [confidential human subject] could hire someone for ‘them’ for $200,000 in order to ‘eliminate someone.’ POURSAFI also said that he had a second job for $1 million,” the affidavit states.<\/p>\n
The CHS asked POURSAFI if there was another individual who had done worse to Iran and whom they should target instead, such as another named former high-ranking United States Government official from the Trump Administration. POURRSAFI told the CHS that targeting that official was dangerous because there were a lot of people around him\/her, but that his\/her time would come. POURSAFI wanted the CHS to focus on the first job and then there would be other jobs,” it further declares.<\/p>\n
Pompeo was apparently seen as a higher-value target to the Iranian government given the offered sum of $1 million to assassinate him when compared to the $200,000 originally offered to assassinate Bolton. That amount was later bumped up to $300,000, per the court documents.<\/p>\n
The plot was probably meant to be retaliation for the successful assassination of the IRGC’s Quds Force leader, Qassem Soleimani, in January 2020.<\/p>\n
Poursafi was charged with the \u201cuse of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and<\/p>\n
with providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot.\u201d The Justice Department announced he ultimately tried to pay U.S.-based individuals $300,000 to carry out the murder of Bolton in either Washington, D.C., or Maryland.<\/p>\n
The charging documents accuse a member of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Shahram Poursafi, aka Mehdi Rezayi, of trying to pay someone $300,000 to kill Bolton. He allegedly further discussed paying $1 million to kill another target, whom Yahoo News has identified as Pompeo.<\/p>\n
Pursuing this second target, the high-ranking Trump official, would be difficult because of the number of people around him, Poursafi announced, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut his\/her time will come,\u201d he stated. The source close to Pompeo said this is also a reference to Pompeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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