by Shane Trejo, Big League Politics:
Back in August 2022, the Justice Department revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) FBI had foiled an Iranian attempt to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton in response to the US government’s killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
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However, it turns out that the “hitman” hired to target Bolton was actually an FBI informant. This was reported on the night of November 12, 2023 by 60 Minutes, which casually reported that fact and treated the assassination plot as a legitimate action.
“Lucky for Bolton, the assassin was an FBI informant,” 60 Minutes reported, portraying the assassination plot as a credible threat.
However, DOJ charging papers illustrated that the “plot” was largely fabricated, and that Bolton was never actually in danger. On top of that, the DOJ has asserted that the man who attempted hiring the FBI informant was a part of Iran’s IRGC-QF, but charging papers demonstrated that investigators never confirmed this claim.
Moreover, it turns out that a key FBI official presiding over this manufactured assassination plot was Steven D’Antuono. He was the same official who was in charge of the Detroit field office during the sketchy Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot prior to being transferred to head the DC field office during the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol.
Per the DOJ charging papers, the man who attempted to assassinate Bolton is an Iranian national Shahram Poursafi. The Iranian national was charged but has not been arrested thus far, this is largely due to speculation that he is still living in Iran.
FBI special agent Randi Beck declared in an affidavit that he believes Poursafi is a member of the IRGC-QF owing to how he “did not deny” the connection, and because he discovered one picture of Poursafi donning a jacket with an IRGC-QF patch. The FBI provided no additional evidence that Poursafi is actually a member of the IRGC-QF.
Beck’s affidavit noted that Poursafi first reached out to a person online—going by the name “Individual A”— in November 2021, requesting him to take photos of Bolton for a “book” the Iranian was writing. Individual A subsequently reached out to the FBI informant, who began multiple months of dialogue with Poursafi.
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